@FioraAeterna opinion: maybe we are better off not providing division in programming languages at all
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@whitequark how about we just make division not trap and define results for div0 and INT_MIN/-15 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
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@FioraAeterna now i'm wondering if an architecture with no traps would be viable1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@FioraAeterna by which i mean /no/ traps. purely sequential. but with some provision to make checking for pending events easier/faster2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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@whitequark @FioraAeterna Of course you can omit traps for anything that's UB. Even invalid memory access as long as the MMU /dev/null's it.
9:26 PM - 27 Aug 2015
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