X86 IDIV sign of remainder depends on sign of dividend for 8/-3 and -8/3?

主宰稳场 提交于 2019-11-28 08:49:13

问题


Can anyone explain for me why the sign of the remainder is different in these cases? Is this an emulator bug or do real CPUs do this, too?

8 / -3 : quotient(AL) = -2 remainder(AH) =  2
-8 / 3 : quotient(AL) = -2 remainder(AH) = -2

回答1:


It is supposed to work that way, though it is tricky to find out by reading the documentation:

Non-integral results are truncated (chopped) towards 0.

Combined with the "division law" X = dq + r (the dividend is the divisor times the quotient plus the remainder), we find that therefore the remainder r = X - d truncate(X / d)

This shows that the remainder depends on the sign of the dividend, but not on the sign of the divisor.



来源:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53966486/x86-idiv-sign-of-remainder-depends-on-sign-of-dividend-for-8-3-and-8-3

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