[commit: haskell98] master: Add old behaviour of gcd (34e290a)

[Ian Lynagh]

Repository : ssh://darcs.haskell.org//srv/darcs/packages/haskell98

On branch  : master

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/34e290a011f2df676a5d655438999634f261502c

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commit 34e290a011f2df676a5d655438999634f261502c
Author: Daniel Fischer <daniel.is.fischer at googlemail.com>
Date:   Tue May 17 23:01:47 2011 +0200

    Add old behaviour of gcd
    
    The behaviour of gcd was changed to "gcd 0 0 = 0", here we must keep
    the haskell98 behaviour and raise an error.

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 Prelude.hs |   11 ++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Prelude.hs b/Prelude.hs
index a09a300..44342a0 100644
--- a/Prelude.hs
+++ b/Prelude.hs
@@ -151,7 +151,8 @@ import GHC.Base
 import Text.Read
 import GHC.Enum
 import GHC.Num
-import GHC.Real
+import GHC.Real hiding ( gcd )
+import qualified GHC.Real ( gcd )
 import GHC.Float
 import GHC.Show
 import GHC.Err   ( undefined )
@@ -207,3 +208,11 @@ seq _ y = y
 catch :: IO a -> (IOError -> IO a) -> IO a
 catch = New.catch
 
+#ifdef __GLASGOW_HASKELL__
+-- | @'gcd' x y@ is the greatest (positive) integer that divides both @x@
+-- and @y@; for example @'gcd' (-3) 6@ = @3@, @'gcd' (-3) (-6)@ = @3@,
+-- @'gcd' 0 4@ = @4 at .  @'gcd' 0 0@ raises a runtime error.
+gcd             :: (Integral a) => a -> a -> a
+gcd 0 0         =  error "Prelude.gcd: gcd 0 0 is undefined"
+gcd x y         = GHC.Real.gcd x y
+#endif