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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: checking for overflow in C
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Date: 9 May 89 18:00:29 GMT
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Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
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Just a reminder to all of you:  "Overflow" simply does not exist in
unsigned arithmetic.  When you add two unsigned values and the result
is too big to fit, what happens is a "carry", not an overflow.
Overflow occurs only in signed arithmetic.
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
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