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From: "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de>
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Subject: Re: Overflow, integers and strings
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

> Christoph M. Becker wrote:
> 
>> Evertjan. wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> Untrue.  Read, for example,
> <http://ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-9.4> pp. and find the 
> operations that use them.

Of course, you're right.  I meant to refer to the basic arithmethic
operations, i.e. the multiplicative[1] and additive[2] operators, which
do not involve ToInteger operations.

[1] <http://ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-11.5>
[2] <http://ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-11.6>

-- 
Christoph M. Becker