At 2:40 PM -0500 11/28/00, Paul Nevai wrote:
>Suppose I use C in CW and I have
>
>UInt32 a, b;
>
>How can I determine if "a" and "b" are "huge" then (a + b) is not beyond
>0xFFFFFFFFF [max UInt32]?
You could add them together and check that the result is larger than
both a and b individually. If it's not, then the the result hit the
max and rolled over...
I'm sure there are other ways, this just popped into my head.
Dave Johnson
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