mpz_get_si: possible undefined behaviour? [Was: Micro-GMP]

[Niels Möller]

tg at gmplib.org (Torbjörn Granlund) writes:

> 2. We should avoid undefined behaviour which might be relevant only to
>    systems we support.  E.g. we might want to avoid signed overflow, or
>    conversion between negative signed and unsigned integers.

Regarding the second example: As far as I'm aware, conversion from
signed to unsigned is perfectly well defined by C specs. It's arithmetic
modulo (ULONG_MAX+1), or whatever is the corresponding *_MAX value for
the target type.

Which is why the NEG_CAST macro seems a bit over-engineered.

Conversion the *other* direction, with signed target type, is well
defined only when the value in question fits the new type.

Regards,
/Niels

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