Re:Myths about Integer Overflow in Rust
by khedoros on Friday April 29, 2016 @03:34PM
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> Why do people invent these strange terms?
Same reason we talk about a "for loop" or a "while loop", instead of just a "conditional branch". Different words add different context to the concept that they're based on. For example, "modular arithmetic" doesn't include the context of checking for undesired leaks in Rust's arithmetic implementation. "Unchecked arithmetic" does.
Same reason we talk about a "for loop" or a "while loop", instead of just a "conditional branch". Different words add different context to the concept that they're based on. For example, "modular arithmetic" doesn't include the context of checking for undesired leaks in Rust's arithmetic implementation. "Unchecked arithmetic" does.