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int_of_string bug

Yaron Minsky
- Oliver Bandel
  - Yaron Minsky
    - Florian Weimer
      - skaller
        
        Andreas Rossberg
        
        skaller
- Brian Hurt
  - Yaron Minsky
    - skaller
      - Erik de Castro Lopo
        
        skaller
        
        Markus Mottl
        
        Toby Kelsey
        
        ls-ocaml-developer-2006@m...

Date:	2007-04-03 (22:30)
From:	ls-ocaml-developer-2006@m...
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] int_of_string bug



Toby Kelsey <toby.kelsey@gmail.com> writes:

> Markus Mottl wrote:
>
>> The problem is just shifted to bigger numbers.  This problem arises
>> with all integer conversion functions, i.e. Int64.of_string,
>> Int32.of_string, Nativeint.of_string, int_of_string.
>> Regards
>> Markus
>
> This bug is not just a conversion problem:
>
> # let x = 1073741824;;
> val x : int = -1073741824
> # (x < 0) && (x >= -x);;
> - : bool = true


# let x = - 1073741824;;
val x : int = -1073741824
# -x;;
- : int = -1073741824

But this is as specified for modular ints. No surprise here ...


Regards -- Markus