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SMOD description #385

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@rokk1t

https://www.evm.codes/?fork=cancun#07:

Note the overflow semantic when $−2^{255}$ is negated.

This is a controversial statement for this opcode.
There is no such statement in https://ethereum.github.io/yellowpaper/paper.pdf.

If needed, you may look deeper into implementation details:

The main point is that SDIV comment—
"Note the overflow semantic when $−2^{255}$ is negated."—
refers to an overflow case.
In contrast, SMOD does not overflow because its arithmetic logic disregards the sign of the second operand.

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