Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Christoph M. Becker" Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: Overflow, integers and strings Date: Mon, 04 May 2015 22:57:21 +0200 Organization: solani.org Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <871tj08vrb.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <1997740.h7VUlrh2Em@PointedEars.de> <72e44d34-7f4d-4d32-8304-e73688132274@googlegroups.com> <3770518e-e91f-4368-9a69-cbd2f2461343@googlegroups.com> <87lhh5zmuy.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <9e56ec52-91b5-4e3e-9206-fd970fa69254@googlegroups.com> <2a1bdab8-bc0e-4a82-bce5-37c151ba4b47@googlegroups.com> <87zj5kebta.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <87oam0e7t7.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <1a007e67-3a14-424d-b480-c2d909c1f553@googlegroups.com> <87d22ge76i.fsf@bsb.me.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: solani.org 1430773039 4180 eJwFwYEBACAEBMCVPF4ap8j+I3RHC0QtD4ZzOFtfFdRuQrcpDi44IxwFW25nnCU5Jv2iyz8QtBDr (4 May 2015 20:57:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 20:57:19 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 X-User-ID: eJwNwgERwDAIA0BNlCQMORSGfwnb/dNl6oAocH9sYG+W7di6pqpaeYHxYB+cogeGel7P1AcpvxEN In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:FZdRO97bj5TquKDgB+iAi79n06E= X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwFwYkBwEAEBMCWvItyDtF/CZlxBWPC4DA/P6SM4GWQdKtdrEQdyhi9TN2+WfwNB2bo6Q8N2BDQ Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:27518 Evertjan. wrote: > wolfgang zeidler wrote on 04 mei 2015 in > comp.lang.javascript: > >> Likely base 2^16 would also work correct, but I was too lazy to check > this. > > There is no question that correct code will work correctly in any form. > That is why it is called correct code. > > In Javascript 2^32 comes to mind, in which case you can use much of the > internal engine. Consider that conforming ES implementations are not required to do any integer arithmetic. -- Christoph M. Becker