Fondly recalling this gem, which is one of the things that set me on the path to integer overflow detection, some time ago

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Fondly recalling this gem, which is one of the things that set me on the path to integer overflow detection, some time ago

Extra, Extra - Read All About It: Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are

Posted by Joshua Bloch, Software EngineerI remember vividly Jon Bentley's first Algorithms lecture at CMU, where he asked all of us incoming Ph.D. ...

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@regehr One of the disgraces of programming language implementations is that integer overflow is permitted. Every architecture I know of detects it, and many allow a trap on it so you don't have to check every operation at run-time.

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@AlgoCompSynth @regehr

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