checking for overflow in C

[Richard Tobin]

In article <10218 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>How did you get your algorithm into the state where an overflow is
>even possible?  Sounds to me like the algorithm needs to be better
>engineered.

Oh come on.  There are lots of cases where this is a possibility.
Perhaps he's writing an interpreter for some other language, for
example.

-- Richard


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