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- net.bugs.v7
- utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnss!mhtsa!rick
- Wed May 5 02:12:29 1982
- Re: overflow in C revisited
- "The action taken on overflow or underflow depends on the machine at
- hand." (Kernighan+Ritchie, "The C Programming Language", Prentice-Hall,
- 1978, p.38) "The handling of overflow and divide check in expression
- evaluation is machine-dependent." (ibid. p.185)
- Although you may claim that invoking machine dependence is inexact in
- a language specification, you cannot claim that the C specification
- "ignores" overflow.
-