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Value Range Propergation / safe truncation

What I am going to write about is an important feature of D.

Safe implicit truncation.

One thing C is criticized for is it's relatively lax type system.

You can do things like : char c = 400;

With luck you will get a like,

warning: overflow in implicit conversion.

On modern compilers.

This is not compatible with D's phlisophy, "If it compiles, it's most likely correct."

That if why DMD will not compile code with narrowing conversions.

Execpt: if it can proof that this conversion is safe.

To do that it needs meta-information about expressions.

This meta-information is the Range of Values this expression can have.

A ubyte for example can have the Values from 0 to 255 or [0,255]

That means the Expression u-2 with the Variable u of type ubyte has [-2,253]

result.max = lhs.max - rhs.min

result.min = lhs.min - rhs.max

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 Safe implicit truncation.