On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 09:20:30AM +0800, Anthony Lawther wrote: >> What I don't like is the idea that the routine just hangs for these >> values. > > > Would it make sense for the line clipper to return the extreme legal > value in the event of overflow? Among other things, that would be possible, yes. However, my question was *if* it is worth to avoid the problems, not *how* to do that. > This will allow execution to continue and any output affected by this > should give the programmer an idea where to look to fix it. The latter won't really work, because what the programmer sees are some lines that don't work as he expected. Regards Uz -- Ullrich von Bassewitz uz@musoftware.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@musoftware.de with the string "unsubscribe cc65" in the body(!) of the mail.Received on Fri Nov 20 13:52:24 2009
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