Larry Osterman has commented on an interesting edge case in the C/C++ standards, involving the underflow of the right shift operator. They reported that if they compiled code which calculated: 1130149156 >> -05701653 it generated different results on 32bit and 64bit operating systems. On 32bit machines it reported 0 but on 64bit machines, it reported …
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Eval in Python
I’ll just leave this here for you: Wait what. Python compiles? That is correct. CPython and PyPy (the implementations worth caring about currently) are in fact creating a code object from the string you pass to exec or eval before executing it. And that’s just one of the things many people don’t know about the exec statement. …