From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
Subject: Re: Why use C++?
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:39:06 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2011-08-12T09:39:06-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4115b619-2c12-494c-a616-ac8542119de3@l9g2000prd.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b7d9471mdtquear9bjepfd880hauomik10@4ax.com
On Aug 11, 10:16 pm, Robert Wessel <robertwess...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:02:55 -0500, "Randy Brukardt"
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> <ra...@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
> >"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
> >news:1d8wyhvpcmpkd.ggiui9vebmtl.dlg@40tude.net...
> >> On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:37:28 -0500, Randy Brukardt wrote:
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> >>> There are uses for wrapping types, but they are far less likely than
> >>> wanting
> >>> overflow detection. The default should be to catch errors, not turn them
> >>> into different ones.
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> >> The OP mentioned image processing, the behavior frequently needed there is
> >> saturated integer arithmetic, which is nether ranged nor modular.
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> >I'm not familar with any hardware on which saturated integer arithmetic is
> >provided. If it was, I would expect direct language support for it (which
> >need not require new kinds of types).
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> Many DSPs, graphics coprocessors and the like have saturating integer
> arithmetic, usually in addition to conventional arithmetic.
TI c6x series, for example (that's the one I'm most familiar with).
-- Adam
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2011-08-10 19:05 ` Why use C++? Niklas Holsti
2011-08-10 22:37 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-08-10 22:49 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-08-12 4:54 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-08-11 7:54 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-11 8:20 ` Jed
2011-08-11 9:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-11 10:57 ` Jed
2011-08-11 11:43 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-12 5:07 ` Jed
2011-08-11 13:11 ` Nomen Nescio
2011-08-11 15:11 ` Paul
2011-08-12 5:15 ` Jed
2011-08-12 21:39 ` Fritz Wuehler
2011-08-14 6:52 ` Jed
2011-08-14 8:13 ` Nomen Nescio
2011-08-11 15:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-12 5:03 ` Jed
2011-08-12 8:32 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-12 13:15 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-08-12 22:09 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-08-12 15:14 ` Jed
2011-08-12 17:20 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-12 19:51 ` Jed
2011-08-12 21:22 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-08-14 7:00 ` Jed
2011-08-16 13:06 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-08-13 9:37 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-14 5:22 ` Jed
2011-08-13 10:27 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-14 5:35 ` Jed
2011-08-14 20:13 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-15 11:38 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-13 11:02 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-14 5:56 ` Jed
2011-08-12 9:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-12 13:26 ` Jed
2011-08-12 14:30 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-12 19:06 ` Jed
2011-08-12 20:05 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-13 7:53 ` Jed
2011-08-13 9:15 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-13 9:29 ` Ian Collins
2011-08-13 9:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-13 11:10 ` Ian Collins
2011-08-13 11:46 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-13 20:30 ` Ian Collins
2011-08-13 11:54 ` Brian Drummond
2011-08-13 13:12 ` Simon Wright
2011-08-14 11:01 ` Brian Drummond
2011-08-14 4:54 ` Jed
2011-08-14 4:35 ` Jed
2011-08-14 6:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-14 4:49 ` Jed
2011-08-14 6:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-14 4:29 ` Jed
2011-08-14 7:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-16 8:18 ` Nick Keighley
2011-08-16 8:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-16 9:52 ` Nick Keighley
2011-08-16 10:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-16 10:23 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-16 10:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-16 11:44 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-16 14:51 ` Bill Findlay
2011-08-16 19:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-16 19:23 ` Bill Findlay
2011-08-12 11:48 ` Stuart Redmann
2011-08-12 13:12 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-08-12 15:50 ` Stuart Redmann
2011-08-12 17:02 ` Bill Findlay
2011-08-15 12:59 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-08-12 5:02 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-08-12 5:16 ` Robert Wessel
2011-08-12 16:39 ` Adam Beneschan [this message]
2011-08-12 5:24 ` Jed
2011-08-12 6:51 ` Paavo Helde
2011-08-12 7:41 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-12 15:50 ` Fritz Wuehler
2011-08-12 19:59 ` Jed
2011-08-13 8:06 ` Stephen Leake
2011-08-12 9:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-12 9:45 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-08-12 10:48 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-12 15:56 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-08-13 8:08 ` Stephen Leake
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