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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How to multiply two ints and check
Message-ID: <17636@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 89 05:36:06 GMT
References: <434@skye.ed.ac.uk> <4700038@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <4700038@m.cs.uiuc.edu> robison@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>There is a much simpler, faster, and machine-independent way to check
>for multiplication overflow --- check the product by division.

Alas, by then it is too late: your program has crashed.  (Not on a
VAX, nor on a Sun nor a Tahoe nor Encore, but on some machines, yes.)
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