Re: arithmetic surprise?

From: Geoffrey.Coram <Geoffrey.Coram_at_.....>
Date: Fri Jan 27 2006 - 08:56:34 PST
I agree it's probably not useful; it probably arises because the
C compiler does "integer division" and we can't change that.

Would certainly be worth adding to a "lint" checker for Verilog-A.

-Geoffrey


"Muranyi, Arpad" wrote:
> 
> Sorry for asking this question, but is this
> "integer division" really a useful thing?
> It seems that it causes a lot of confusion
> and headache for many people...  One can
> always use the expression floor(1/2) to get
> the desired result, if that is what is
> expected instead of the normal math result
> that most everyone would intuitively expect.
> 
> Arpad
Received on Fri Jan 27 08:56:53 2006

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