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Comment by VMG

Why are arithmetic overflows and underflows not exceptions/crashes by default, like divison by 0?

Aren't the cases where you actually want an over/underflow the exception? Why not resort to special instructions/macros/operators for these operations?

parent VMG 11 years ago

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