Re:How expensive is integer-overflow trapping in C++?
by asveikau on Thursday September 24, 2020 @11:14AM
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Yes, but I would take minor issue in that I wasn't saying what should happen so much as what the options are given various tradeoffs.
There are programming communities that have criticisms of exceptions and would like to avoid them. I am sympathetic to that. But if you do have exceptions, this is a good candidate. If you don't have exceptions, making integer overflow trap seems problematic. Posix signals may be another solution, with its own problems and ugliness.
There are programming communities that have criticisms of exceptions and would like to avoid them. I am sympathetic to that. But if you do have exceptions, this is a good candidate. If you don't have exceptions, making integer overflow trap seems problematic. Posix signals may be another solution, with its own problems and ugliness.