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    Question error or not error ?

    Should this code raise an error ?

    uses "console"
    
    dim myvar as DWord = 1
    myvar = - myvar
    printl myvar
    WaitKey
    
    myvar is declared as an unsigned variable. Why is it allowed to compute something below 0 ?

    Edit: All the same, if you declare
    • a variable as byte and assign a value outside the 0-255 range
    • a variable as boolean that isn't %true nor %false



    Regarding this previous question and the last Petr's blog page,
    is there a list of all errors caught by thinBasic ?
    Last edited by DirectuX; 01-03-2020 at 19:34.
    ThinBasic 1.11.6.0 ALPHA - Windows 8.1 x64

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    Hi Sebastian,

    what are you observing is overflow. It is not unique to thinBASIC and some algorithms actually benefit from it - according to related article for example hashing algorithms, certain data structures (ring buffers, particularly) and even image codecs.

    As thinBASIC already has OPTION BOUNDCHECK ON / OPTION BOUNDCHECK OFF, maybe it would be nice to have something like that for OVERFLOW?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Petr Schreiber View Post
    Hi Sebastian,

    what are you observing is overflow. It is not unique to thinBASIC and some algorithms actually benefit from it - according to related article for example hashing algorithms, certain data structures (ring buffers, particularly) and even image codecs.

    As thinBASIC already has OPTION BOUNDCHECK ON / OPTION BOUNDCHECK OFF, maybe it would be nice to have something like that for OVERFLOW?


    Petr
    From the article you mentioned:
    Quote Originally Posted by http://huonw.github.io/blog/2016/04/myths-and-legends-about-integer-overflow-in-rust View Post
    These overflow checks can be manually disabled or enabled independently of the compilation mode both globally and at a per-operation level. By checking for overflow in some modes, overflow bugs in Rust code are hopefully found earlier. Furthermore, code that actually wants wrapping behaviour is explicit about this requirement, meaning fewer false positives for both future static analyses and for code that enables overflow checking in all modes.
    Yes ! it would help hunting certain bugs. By the way, instructive article, as the one it cites is.
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