[erlang-questions] Truncation packing Integer into binary: bug or feature?

[Edwin Fine]

Thanks. I missed that one :(

Is that the one and only reference to that issue?

I agree that

"This behaviour might be surprising and it should probably be mentioned
in the reference manual ..."

and will raise a request to do exactly that.

Regards,
Edwin Fine

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:21 AM, Christian <chsu79@REDACTED> wrote:

> It has been mentioned before on the list.
>
> http://www.erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2007-July/027657.html
>
> > Is this a bug or a feature? I know that in C, integers overflow silently.
> I
> > would have thought Erlang would raise a badarg error or something. Or
> would
> > it negatively impact performance to check for overflow? Is there a place
> in
> > the docs I did not find that addresses this? I have searched the Erlang
> > documentation, Google and the Erlang mailing list archives for clues and
> > found nothing so far.
>
>


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