Re: Integer Overflow

On 2010-12-30, jacob navia <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I demonstrated that
you can detect the overflow, the central point we are discussing about.
If it is a hardware flag or a software combination of flags is
completely irrelevant. Some processors give the same effect of the
overflow flag by using other flags, this is just irrelevant, we are
discussing that _overflow() can be implemented in any
processor including the now dead dec alpha.

FYI, the DEC Alpha is not dead.
In fact, I'm using one to send this post!
.

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