I said:
>> Attached is a patch to accept the smallest value of int8.
> This has been proposed before. The problem with it is that it's
> not portable: the C standard does not specify the direction of rounding
> of integer division when the dividend is negative.
BTW, does anyone have a copy of the ANSI C standard to check this?
I have a draft of C99, which says that truncation is towards 0
regardless of the sign, but I think that this is something that was
tightened up in C99; we can't rely on older compilers to follow it.
regards, tom lane
