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[Caml-list] Int overflow in literals

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
- Alex Baretta
  - Frederic van der Plancke
    - Oleg Trott
      - Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
- Issac Trotts
  - Oleg Trott
    - skaller
      - Brian Hurt
        
        Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
        
        skaller
    - Kenneth Knowles
      - Jacques Garrigue
        
        Kenneth Knowles
  - Frederic van der Plancke
    - Issac Trotts
    - Oleg Trott
- Xavier Leroy

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak@k...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Int overflow in literals

W li¶cie z czw, 30-10-2003, godz. 20:20, Oleg Trott pisze:

> I'm also curious if raising an exception in case of arithmetic overflows
> instead of silently accepting them would have a significant performance
> impact on modern CPUs - few, if anyone, mean to do mod 2^31 
> arithmetic.

Perhaps it should be like array bounds checking: separate functions for
both variants, with + resolving to either depending on -unsafe option?

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