C++ Best way to get integer division and remainder

Question

I am just wondering, if I want to divide a by b, and am interested both in the result c and the remainder (e.g. say I have number of seconds and want to split that into minu

Answer 1

You cannot trust g++ 4.6.3 here with 64 bit integers on a 32 bit intel platform. a/b is computed by a call to divdi3 and a%b is computed by a call to moddi3. I can even come up with an example that computes a/b and a-b*(a/b) with these calls. So I use c=a/b and a-b*c.

The div method gives a call to a function which computes the div structure, but a function call seems inefficient on platforms which have hardware support for the integral type (i.e. 64 bit integers on 64 bit intel/amd platforms).