#8695: Arithmetic overflow from (minBound :: Int) `quot` (-1) ------------------------------------------------+-------------------------- Reporter: rleslie | Owner: Type: bug | Status: patch Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.8.1 Component: libraries/haskell2010 | Version: 7.6.3 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: Type of failure: Incorrect result at runtime | Unknown/Multiple Test Case: | Difficulty: Blocking: | Unknown | Blocked By: | Related Tickets: #1042 ------------------------------------------------+-------------------------- Comment (by rleslie): It seems to me there is a desire for a fixed-precision integer type that throws an exception on overflow rather than performing modulo arithmetic -- in which case, I'd be fine with the present behavior, as long as all other overflow conditions were treated similarly. But modulo arithmetic is also useful and desirable for some purposes, and I object to an integer type that performs modulo arithmetic in some cases, and throws an exception in others. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8695#comment:16 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler