• Henning Hasemann (6/6) Feb 07 2007 Is this a bug or did I misunderstood arithmetic or cast()?
• Frits van Bommel (4/11) Feb 07 2007 This is caused by the type conversion rules: typeof(-5 * 1u) == uint, so...

Henning Hasemann <hhasemann web.de> writes:

Is this a bug or did I misunderstood arithmetic or cast()?

cast(int)(-5 * 1 * 0.41));  // result: -2
cast(int)(-5 * 1u);         // result: -5
cast(int)(-5 * 1u * 0.41)); // result: 1760936589

The last result seems strange to me. I use dmd 1.005.

Henning

Frits van Bommel <fvbommel REMwOVExCAPSs.nl> writes:

Henning Hasemann wrote:
 Is this a bug or did I misunderstood arithmetic or cast()?
 
 cast(int)(-5 * 1 * 0.41));  // result: -2
 cast(int)(-5 * 1u);         // result: -5
 cast(int)(-5 * 1u * 0.41)); // result: 1760936589
 
 The last result seems strange to me. I use dmd 1.005.

This is caused by the type conversion rules: typeof(-5 * 1u) == uint, so 
-5 * 1u * 0.41 == cast(uint)-5 * 0.41 == 0xfffffffb * 0.41 == 
1760936589.31 which rounds to 1760936589 when cast to an int.