Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Sosman Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Arithmetic overflow checking Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:45:19 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 10 Message-ID: References: <015aeb15-57db-48ab-9cd4-77f8448b632f@w24g2000yqw.googlegroups.com> <2rydnez7l-H5BYnTnZ2dnUVZ_vGdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <9LWdnZH2hdfmyYvTnZ2dnUVZ_vidnZ2d@posted.palinacquisition> <3797038f-22d1-40b2-8c12-60db5a0976b8@t5g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> <289ad570-65fc-49d8-9cc8-1f15d13ff3e3@gv8g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 01:45:26 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="BrOwaJANne849xlH+KPYjQ"; logging-data="22210"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19FIOe0BLfGdAnbHYJHSAWS" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:UNX0Oncek+9bwKs3XuDweboWbGo= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:6143 comp.lang.c:8216 On 7/12/2011 8:24 AM, tm wrote: > [...] > The philosophy: No checks in a production system should > be a thing of the past. "Test what you fly, fly what you test." -- Eric Sosman esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid