Re: [repost]Eorros for me, in the assembly history


Frank Kotler wrote:

>
> No, I know - by "experiment" :) - that C doesn't keep track of values
> slipping out of stated limits at runtime. Results quietly become
> meaningless, unless we check for... "overflow"... hate to use that term,
> since Intel says it doesn't happen...

Then why the heck did they bother supplying an Overflow Flag??? I
figure that the Sign Flag never gets used either since everyone prefers
to use Two's-Complement instead. And, doesn't RosAsm come with a
Wannabee-written *Bit Count* macro so that we can do away with tests of
the Zero Flag??? ;-)

>
> Apparently, "signed char c = 200" is okay too. No comment.

Oh, that is for when you are coding programs for the blind. :)

Nathan.

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