Tim Peters <tim.one@comcast.net>: > I'll repeat that it's hard to do this correctly and quickly (c.f. earlier > comments about the history of Python's subtly buggy attempts). The really tragic thing about all this is that most machines have perfectly good facilities for detecting overflow at the machine level, but no commonly used HLL that I know of provides access to them, for some unfathomable reason. Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz +--------------------------------------+
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