On 19 January 2011 15:53, Caldarale, Charles R
<[email protected]> wrote:
> No, most hardware (e.g., all flavors of x86) just sets a flag indicating that
> an overflow has occurred; it's up to the executing program to check the flag.
And on some machines (again, x86 springs to mind) it's easier to check
some flags than others. I needed to do this for some stats software
recently. Detecting FP overflow was easy ("there's an instruction for
that"), detecting integer overflow was significantly harder.
- Peter
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