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From: Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: can Ada give run-time error or warning for integer division with
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Date: 2012-08-12T07:19:34-07:00
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On Aug 12, 11:14=A0am, "Nasser M. Abbasi" <n...@12000.org> wrote:
> In Ada when dividing 2 integers, the result is an integer
> with the remainder ignored. =A0Hence 3/2 gives 1
>
> ----------------------------------
> with Ada.Integer_Text_IO ; use Ada.Integer_Text_IO ;
>
> procedure foo4 is
> =A0 =A0N : constant integer :=3D 3;
> =A0 =A0M : integer;
>
> =A0 =A0begin
> =A0 =A0 =A0M :=3D N/2;
> =A0 =A0 =A0put(M);
>
> end foo4;
> --------------------------
>
> >gnatmake foo4.adb
> >./foo4
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A01
>
> 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.