Re: DIV overflow


Hello Brian,

What are good solutions to preventing DIV overflow?

Best solution would be to avoid DIV at all,
but unfortunately not always very practical.

An easy way is to always have dx just a sign extension of ax,
so for your example better use 32-bit DIV.

MOVZX ebx, word divisor ;if you want a 16-bit divisor
MOV eax, dword dividend
CDQ ;edx=Sign eax 0 or -1 (becomes 0 yet)
DIV ebx ;cannot overflow then

Better replace CDQ with XOR edx,edx for UNsigned DIV.

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wolfgang

:) we always post it twice ?


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