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From: Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Why use C++?
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:16:23 -0500
Date: 2011-08-12T00:16:23-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b7d9471mdtquear9bjepfd880hauomik10@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: j22c61$5lo$1@munin.nbi.dk

On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:02:55 -0500, "Randy Brukardt"
<randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote:

>"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
>news:1d8wyhvpcmpkd.ggiui9vebmtl.dlg@40tude.net...
>> On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:37:28 -0500, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> The OP mentioned image processing, the behavior frequently needed there is
>> saturated integer arithmetic, which is nether ranged nor modular.
>
>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).


Many DSPs, graphics coprocessors and the like have saturating integer
arithmetic, usually in addition to conventional arithmetic.  x86 has
saturating integer vector instructions as well, dating back to MMX
(PADDUSW, for example)..



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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 [this message]
2011-08-12 16:39                   ` Adam Beneschan
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
2011-08-18 13:39               ` Louisa
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