Rustom Mody wrote:
Both the mess in catching numeric overflow as well as stackoverflow looks like
its C's fault.
I consider it as the fault of currently fashionable stock hardware
The sad thing about C is that it doesn't even help you
detect integer overflow in *software*.
Every machine I've ever seen has a flag that gets set
if an integer addition overflows. But C doesn't provide
any portable way of testing that flag, even if you
wanted to.
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