GNU bug report logs - #75745
[PATCH] gnu: hugs: Ignore integer overflow.

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: Homo <gay <at> disroot.org>

Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 05:52:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: gay <at> disroot.org
To: Lars-Dominik Braun <lars <at> 6xq.net>, 75745 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Lennart Augustsson <lennart <at> augustsson.net>
Subject: [bug#75745] [PATCH] gnu: hugs: Ignore integer overflow.
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 23:06:12 +0200

> I remember several years ago seeing (unrelated to MicroHs) code that 
> for performance reasons uses integer overflow with division by some 
> power of 2 (i++ / (1 << N)) for circular array (queue) to pass messages 
> between threads, so having it overflow or underflow is not always a 
> bug.

Correction, it was: i++ & (1 << N)

But you get the idea.
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