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-rw-r--r--lib/dialyzer/src/dialyzer_typesig.erl8
-rw-r--r--lib/dialyzer/test/small_SUITE_data/src/inv_mult.erl15
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/dialyzer/src/dialyzer_typesig.erl b/lib/dialyzer/src/dialyzer_typesig.erl
index 1737bfd3a9..6c14860d7d 100644
--- a/lib/dialyzer/src/dialyzer_typesig.erl
+++ b/lib/dialyzer/src/dialyzer_typesig.erl
@@ -1579,11 +1579,11 @@ get_bif_constr({M, F, A} = _BIF, Dst, Args, _State) ->
eval_inv_arith('+', _Pos, Dst, Arg) ->
bif_return(erlang, '-', 2, [Dst, Arg]);
eval_inv_arith('*', _Pos, Dst, Arg) ->
- case t_number_vals(Arg) of
- [0] -> t_integer();
- _ ->
+ Zero = t_from_term(0),
+ case t_is_none(t_inf(Arg, Zero)) of
+ false -> t_integer();
+ true ->
TmpRet = bif_return(erlang, 'div', 2, [Dst, Arg]),
- Zero = t_from_term(0),
%% If 0 is not part of the result, it cannot be part of the argument.
case t_is_subtype(Zero, Dst) of
false -> t_subtract(TmpRet, Zero);
diff --git a/lib/dialyzer/test/small_SUITE_data/src/inv_mult.erl b/lib/dialyzer/test/small_SUITE_data/src/inv_mult.erl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3413556813
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/dialyzer/test/small_SUITE_data/src/inv_mult.erl
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+%% Dialyzer was too constraining when checking the relation between the
+%% arguments and result of a multiplication. We should not constrain an argument
+%% if the other operand *may* be zero.
+%%
+%% Bug found by Kostis Sagonas, fixed by Stavros Aronis
+
+-module(inv_mult).
+-compile(export_all).
+
+main(L) ->
+ N = -1 * length(L),
+ fact(N).
+
+fact(0) -> 1;
+fact(N) -> N * fact(N-1).