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to: F. TOURIGNY
from: TOM TORFS
date: 1997-07-30 17:06:00
subject: Integer overflow

F. Tourigny wrote in a message to All:
 FT> How do you test for integer overflow?
Write your own add, substract, multiply, divide etc. functions (or overload 
some operators for you fancy C++ programmers ;-) which cast the int's to 
long's and compare the results against INT_MIN and INT_MAX before converting 
them back to ints, would be how I would do it.
greetz,
Tom
tomtorfs@mail.dma.be
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