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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: What's the best hashing function?
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David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
[...]
> Take for example division by 0.  Division of integers in C is
> well-defined, and matches typical cpu hardware divide instructions,
> except in the case of dividing by 0.

INT_MIN / -1 also has undefined behavior on systems where
INT_MIN < -INT_MAX.  It's easy to forget that integer division
can overflow.

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