Integers to Ints

[Fergus Henderson]

On 16-May-2001, Steinitz, Dominic J <Dominic.J.Steinitz@BritishAirways.com> wrote:
> Can someone explain the following behaviour? Or is it a bug in hugs?

It looks to me very much like it is a bug in Hugs.

ghc 4.04 does not suffer from this bug.

It's easy to make mistakes like this, which can often arise from forgetting
the assymetric nature of twos-complement signed integers, which have more
negative numbers than positive numbers.  We once had a similar kind of bug
in the Mercury standard library implementation, where string__to_int was
not handling the most negative integer correctly.  We fixed that one in
March 1998.

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