[Gambas-user] Possible error when doing math on bytes

Benoit Minisini benoit.minisini at gambas-basic.org
Wed Jan 11 14:44:19 CET 2023


Le 11/01/2023 à 08:09, Benoit Minisini a écrit :
> Le 10/01/2023 à 23:21, Brian G a écrit :
>>
>>> Le 10/01/2023 à 22:48, Brian G a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> With latest build, both 20.3 and 21.1 work in the same way, looks good.
>>>>
>>>> Should pointers not behave in the same way?
>>>
>>> I don't understand the question...
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Benoît Minisini.
>>
>> 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
>>
>> What do you thing about including that check?
>>
>> Brian
>>
> 
> Mmm... Logically yes, but I'm not sure that pointers are considered as 
> integers by the overflow detection functions. I will check.
> 

By the way, is everything ok for you now? Can I release the 3.18?

-- 
Benoît Minisini.



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