[fpc-devel] bug: Inc(v,i)/Dec(v,i)

Micha Nelissen micha at neli.hopto.org
Tue Jul 5 09:25:48 CEST 2005


On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 09:19:42 +0200 (CEST)
"Peter Vreman" <peter at freepascal.org> wrote:

> The following code also fails with an overflow
> 
> {$Q+}
> var
>   v : cardinal;
> begin
>   v:=100;
>   inc(v,-1);
> end.
> 
> The reason is that -1 is in fact an addition of $ffffffff resulting in the
> carry flag being set and therefor an overflow.

If adding a negative number to an unsigned one, the overflow flag needs to be inverted ?

Micha




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