[Scilab-users] Scilab and Matlab integer representation

[Dang, Christophe]

Hello,

concerning the second point

> De : A Khorshidi
> Envoyé : mardi 5 août 2014 08:36
>
> For example, Scilab's result for int8(200) is -56 but Matlab's result will be 127
> (the largest value which can be stored in this data type). 

Such a case should be handled uniformely, which would mean described in a standard.
The only "right" answer would be a special value, indicating the overflow.

Such special values are in the IEEE 754 standard for floating point representation,
but int8  represent few values (256), who would waste one value to implement an error code?

IMHO, this is our responsability as programmers to make sure that we use adapted representations for our values.

-- 
Christophe Dang Ngoc Chan
Mechanical calculation engineer

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