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Article #816arithmetic overflow checking
From: Andrew Taylor
Date: Tue, 08 May 1990 04:30
Date: Tue, 08 May 1990 04:30
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Some (most?) Prolog implementations do not check for overflow on (integer) arithemtic. This doesn't seem acceptable to me. I'm interested to know why this is. Is it laziness? Is it deliberate? Is it inherited from the implementation languages (often C)? Does it worry anyone else?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!metro!cluster!andrewt From: andrewt@cluster.cs.su.oz (Andrew Taylor) Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog Subject: arithmetic overflow checking Message-ID: <870@cluster.cs.su.oz> Date: 8 May 90 04:30:36 GMT Organization: Dept. of Comp. Science, Uni of Sydney, Australia Lines: 5