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[PATCH] gnu: hugs: Ignore integer overflow.

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Message #14 received at 75745 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

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: Re: [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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