Neko overflow about haxemanual HOT 7 CLOSED

I don't really know what to write here.

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Neko have both int and float runtime values, operations on int values will overflow on 32 bits, and it is necessary to manually convert an int to a float to prevent such overflow.

For example:

var x : Int = 65536;
var y : Float = x;
y * y; // overflow, because we are multiplying two runtime int values

//instead, one should write:
var y : Float = x * 1.0; // convert int to float

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Shouldn't the assignment of x to y come with an appropriate conversion?

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that's what every other target that has different runtime types do

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ATM we don't do this, I'm not sure we can find a way to detect each Int-to-Float conversions into genneko (passing Int as parameter to a function as well). Then there's Dynamic to Float too.

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Yeah I'm just thinking we shouldn't document this as working-as-intended.

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Meh neko

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