Re: [Vm-dev] [squeak-dev] What should Integer>>digitCompare: return?

Hi Chris,

On Oct 28, 2018, at 3:41 PM, Chris Cunningham cunningham.cb@gmail.com wrote:

Looking at LargeIntegers (I'm 64 bit, so these are big): { 1152921504606846977 digitCompare: -1152921504606846977. 1152921504606846977 digitCompare: -1152921504606846978. 1152921504606846978 digitCompare: -1152921504606846977. } "#(0 -1 1)"

{ 1249 digitCompare: -1249. 1249 digitCompare: -1250. 1250 digitCompare: -1249. } #(1 1 1)

I do apologize. You’re quite right; the primitive is broken for SmallInteger. It should be the case that (-1 digitCompare: 1) = 0 since ((1 to: 8) collect: [:i| -1 digitAt: i ]) = #(1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0) and: [(1 to: 8) collect: [:i| 1 digitAt: i ]) = #(1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0)]

I’ll fix this ASAP :-)