Re: integer divided by zero

On 25/04/2025 18:38, Thiago Adams wrote:

Does anyone know of any platform where integer division by zero returns a number, or in other words, where it's not treated as an error? I'm asking because division by zero is undefined behaviour, but I think division by a constant zero should be a constraint instead.

C? I doubt it very much.
In the 1980s, there was a BASIC dialect for 68000s, called GFA BASIC, which was available as both an interpreter and a compiler. The interpreter produced an error for 0/0, but the compiler optimised it to 1 (on the grounds that, for any a, a/a=1).
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