[ruby-cvs:72837] shyouhei:r65737 (trunk): hash.c: cast from double to unsigned is undefined

[shyouhei at ruby-lang.org]

shyouhei	2018-11-15 15:17:53 +0900 (Thu, 15 Nov 2018)

  New Revision: 65737

  https://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=65737

  Log:
    hash.c: cast from double to unsigned is undefined
    
    When a negative double is casted into an unsigned type, that operation
    is undefined (cf: ISO/IEC 9899:1990 section 6.2.9.3).  Recent versions
    of C kindly footnotes that "The remaindering operation performed when
    a value of integer type is converted to unsigned type need not be
    performed when a value of real floating type is converted to unsigned
    type" (cf: ISO/IEC 9899:1999 section 6.3.1.4 footnote 50).
    
    So it is a wrong idea to just cast a double to st_data_t.
    
    The intention of the code is commented as "mix the actual float value
    in".  It seems we should do a reinterpret_cast and rule out
    static_cast.
    
    Confirmed this changeset does not affect `make benchmark`.

  Modified files:
    trunk/hash.c