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somethingor 83 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: I stopped everything and started writing C again

> plus/minus operators do not catch overflow

They do (in Debug and ReleaseSafe modes)

codedokode 83 days ago [–]

Why not have the same behaviour everywhere? Because they are adapting the language to legacy CPUs not capable of detecting an overflow?

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