Re: Re[4]: [Firebird-devel] Computation problem in 1.5RC3

[Calin I. P. <pc...@rd...>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gabriel Juncu"
> You hurried a bit. My first example (and problem) was:
>
> Param1 = 5655555;
> Param2 = 32900;
> Result = Param1 * Param2;
>
> so (56555555 * 10000) * (32900 * 10000) gives 20 digits -> and the
> result really overflows ;-)
:)) You're absolutely right. I didn't think it through enough.

Of course there's always the posibility to write a UDF multiply lib with
extended
as intermediate type. ;-)

As for firebird this is the intended behaviour, and too many rely on it
already.

Ciao,


Best regards,
Application Developer
Calin Iancu, Pirtea
S.C. SoftScape S.R.L.
pc...@rd...