How to avoid overflow in expr. A * B - C * D

Question

I need to compute an expression which looks like: A*B - C*D, where their types are: signed long long int A, B, C, D; Each number can be really big (not

Answer 1

This should work ( I think ):

signed long long int a = 0x7ffffffffffffffd;
signed long long int b = 0x7ffffffffffffffd;
signed long long int c = 0x7ffffffffffffffc;
signed long long int d = 0x7ffffffffffffffe;
signed long long int bd = b / d;
signed long long int bdmod = b % d;
signed long long int ca = c / a;
signed long long int camod = c % a;
signed long long int x = (bd - ca) * a * d - (camod * d - bdmod * a);

Here's my derivation:

x = a * b - c * d
x / (a * d) = (a * b - c * d) / (a * d)
x / (a * d) = b / d - c / a

now, the integer/mod stuff:
x / (a * d) = (b / d + ( b % d ) / d) - (c / a + ( c % a ) / a )
x / (a * d) = (b / d - c / a) - ( ( c % a ) / a - ( b % d ) / d)
x = (b / d - c / a) * a * d - ( ( c % a ) * d - ( b % d ) * a)