[Gambas-user] Possible error when doing math on bytes
Benoit Minisini
benoit.minisini at gambas-basic.org
Wed Jan 11 08:09:41 CET 2023
Le 10/01/2023 à 23:21, Brian G a écrit :
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>> Le 10/01/2023 à 22:48, Brian G a écrit :
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>>> With latest build, both 20.3 and 21.1 work in the same way, looks good.
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>>> Should pointers not behave in the same way?
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>> I don't understand the question...
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>> --
>> Benoît Minisini.
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> Pointers are also unsigned values with fixed boundaries, source of many errors
> dec/inc or add/subtract above or below boundaries should perhaps create an overflow as well
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> What do you thing about including that check?
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> Brian
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Mmm... Logically yes, but I'm not sure that pointers are considered as
integers by the overflow detection functions. I will check.
--
Benoît Minisini.
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