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v2_2_9 - Show latest stable - 0 notes - Class: Fixnum

*(p1) public

Performs multiplication: the class of the resulting object depends on the class of numeric and on the magnitude of the result. It may return a Bignum.

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static VALUE
fix_mul(VALUE x, VALUE y)
{
    if (FIXNUM_P(y)) {
#ifdef __HP_cc
/* avoids an optimization bug of HP aC++/ANSI C B3910B A.06.05 [Jul 25 2005] */
        volatile
#endif
        long a, b;
#if SIZEOF_LONG * 2 <= SIZEOF_LONG_LONG
        LONG_LONG d;
#else
        VALUE r;
#endif

        a = FIX2LONG(x);
        b = FIX2LONG(y);

#if SIZEOF_LONG * 2 <= SIZEOF_LONG_LONG
        d = (LONG_LONG)a * b;
        if (FIXABLE(d)) return LONG2FIX(d);
        return rb_ll2inum(d);
#else
        if (a == 0) return x;
        if (MUL_OVERFLOW_FIXNUM_P(a, b))
            r = rb_big_mul(rb_int2big(a), rb_int2big(b));
        else
            r = LONG2FIX(a * b);
        return r;
#endif
    }
    else if (RB_TYPE_P(y, T_BIGNUM)) {
        return rb_big_mul(y, x);
    }
    else if (RB_TYPE_P(y, T_FLOAT)) {
        return DBL2NUM((double)FIX2LONG(x) * RFLOAT_VALUE(y));
    }
    else {
        return rb_num_coerce_bin(x, y, '*');
    }
}

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