http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3165

           Summary: What kind of integer division does D use?
           Product: D
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
               URL: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/expression.html#MulEx
                    pression
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: spec
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: www.digitalmars.com
        AssignedTo: nobody@puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: m.helvensteijn@gmail.com


Specify what kind of integer division D uses. The description is ambiguous when one or both operands of / are negative. So, in other words, what does D return from:

 3 /  2
 3 / -2
-3 /  2
-3 / -2

Such information should be part of the language specification.

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--- Comment #1 from Michiel Helvensteijn <m.helvensteijn@gmail.com>  2009-07-12 14:11:52 PDT ---
I've ran the following test:

----------------------------------
import std.stdio;

int main() {
        writefln(8/3);
        writefln(8/(-3));
        writefln((-8)/3);
        writefln((-8)/(-3));
        writefln(8%3);
        writefln(8%(-3));
        writefln((-8)%3);
        writefln((-8)%(-3));

        return 0;
}
----------------------------------

outputs the following

----------
2
-2
-2
2
2
2
-2
-2
----------

So DMD uses truncated division. The quotient rounds towards zero and the remainder has the same sign as the dividend.

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Stewart Gordon <smjg@iname.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                URL|http://www.digitalmars.com/ |http://www.digitalmars.com/
                   |d/2.0/expression.html#MulEx |d/1.0/expression.html#MulEx
                   |pression                    |pression
                 CC|                            |smjg@iname.com
             Blocks|                            |677




--- Comment #2 from Stewart Gordon <smjg@iname.com>  2009-07-14 16:30:04 PDT ---
Changing URL since this is a D1 spec issue just the same.

But you could well ask why it defines it as undefined for % but makes no comment at all (even on whether it's rounded up, down or off for +ve operands) for /.

I've felt for ages that the programmer ought to have the choice between trunc
and floor versions for both
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/13125.html
but that's another matter.

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Walter Bright <bugzilla@digitalmars.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |bugzilla@digitalmars.com
         Resolution|                            |FIXED




--- Comment #3 from Walter Bright <bugzilla@digitalmars.com>  2009-09-03 13:25:32 PDT ---
Fixed dmd 1.047 and 2.032

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