[J3] [BULK] Re: Upcoming gfortran 15 will contain an implementation of unsigned numbers

[Van Snyder]

On Thu, 2024-10-17 at 19:07 +0200, Thomas König via J3 wrote:
> Am 16.10.24 um 01:30 schrieb Malcolm Cohen via J3:
>  > Well, I beg to differ on the " manual detection of overflow would
> be
>  > impossible if" assertion. That is not the case. The detection code
> > 
> is different, that's all.
> 
> Agreed, then.
> 
>  >
>  > But manual detection is not the issue, as one would hardly
> decorate
>  > every addition with manual detection code.

If the hardware can detect it, the program could handle it using an
exception, if the language provided exception handling. See 18-115.



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