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From: Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net>
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Subject: Re: Arithmetic overflow checking
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Wed, 6 Jul 2011 22:28:50 +0200, /Tom Anderson/:

> using a library or a set of functions by convention is error-prone,

The set of library functions would just address the requirement of 
not cluttering the code.  The error-proneness is usually addressed 
by writing appropriate unit tests which verify the code is dealing 
with overflow situations in expected manner.

-- 
Stanimir