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Subject: Re: Arithmetic overflow checking
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On 17/07/2011 11:14 AM, Daniele Futtorovic wrote:
> On 11/07/2011 23:49, Joshua Cranmer allegedly wrote:
>> What I advocated would basically be a "checked integer": every operation
>> is guaranteed to have a result between [min, max]; if not, it throws an
>> exception.
>
> Sounds cool. Any chance we might see it in teh Jav one day? And is there
> actually hardware support for it?

I think the gist of some other discussion in this thread is that some 
computers have hardware detection and others don't.