John Regehr wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> > If you can show me rewrites of all the basic arithmetic operations that
> > detect overflow in full compliance with the C standard, and are
> > readable, portable, and efficient, I'm all ears.
> 
> These are the best ones that I know of:
> 
> https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode/INT32-C.+Ensure+that+operations+on+signed+integers+do+not+result+in+overflow
> 
> Even if you dislike these, please take a look at the safety checks for
> shifts.  The current postgresql shift functions need to be strengthened,
> and it is easy to do.

Added to TODO:

        Consider improving overflow detection

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