checking for overflow in C

[Kenneth Almquist]

henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> C unfortunately has to be close to the hardware of a wide variety of
> machines.  There is no consensus on whether the hardware checks for overflow
> or not.  C generally prefers to reflect the underlying hardware rather
> than trying to hide it, so this lack of consensus shows to the programmer.

If there is not a consensus, there is certainly an overwhelming majority!
I know the assembly languages of half a dozen machines, and they all
include overflow checks.
				Kenneth Almquist