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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: checking for overflow in C
Message-ID: <462@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 19 May 89 17:16:13 GMT
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In article <10218@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@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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