Don: > The "overflow12.pdf" paper on that site shows statistics that overflow > is very often intentional.
This is expected, the C/C++ programmers are using the semantics of their language. But it's just because they are using a language with a bad integer semantics. A better designed language gives you a way to tell the compiler where you want overflow (or the default behaviour of the ALU you are using), where you want wraparound, and where you want some overflow errors. I have seen enough overflow-related bugs in supposed higher-quality C code written by experts. Bye, bearophile
