From: Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: can Ada give run-time error or warning for integer division with non-zero remainder?
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 07:19:34 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2012-08-12T07:19:34-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1c0c49b1-d65a-4959-9975-b77977d00d01@vg10g2000pbc.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: k07028$eok$1@speranza.aioe.org
On Aug 12, 11:14 am, "Nasser M. Abbasi" <n...@12000.org> wrote:
> In Ada when dividing 2 integers, the result is an integer
> with the remainder ignored. Hence 3/2 gives 1
>
> ----------------------------------
> with Ada.Integer_Text_IO ; use Ada.Integer_Text_IO ;
>
> procedure foo4 is
> N : constant integer := 3;
> M : integer;
>
> begin
> M := N/2;
> put(M);
>
> end foo4;
> --------------------------
>
> >gnatmake foo4.adb
> >./foo4
>
> 1
>
> Now, suppose I want to know that a division between 2 integers
> has resulted in nonzero remainder that was thrown away. May be
> because my algorithm is meant to work only for even values and
> an odd value means there was a bug somewhere and I want to
> know about it.
Use MOD.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-12 1:14 can Ada give run-time error or warning for integer division with non-zero remainder? Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-08-12 5:45 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-08-12 6:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-08-12 7:16 ` Per Sandberg
2012-08-12 14:03 ` Brad Moore
2012-08-12 14:19 ` Robin Vowels [this message]
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