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Overflow

 

Operator

Overflow

 

Operator

Overflow

 

Operator

Overflow

+

yes

 

-=

yes

 

<<

yes

 

<

no

-

yes

 

*=

yes

 

>>

yes

 

>

no

*

yes

 

/=

yes

 

&

no

 

>=

no

/

yes

 

%=

yes

 

|

no

 

<=

no

%

yes

 

<<

yes

 

^

no

 

==

no

++

yes

 

>>=

yes

 

~

no

 

!=

no

-

yes

 

&=

no

 

!

no

 

&&

no

=

no

 

|=

no

 

un +

no

 

||

no

+=

yes

 

^=

no

 

un -

yes

 

?:

no

The following sections examine specific operations that are susceptible to integer overflow.

Addition

Addition in C is between two operands of arithmetic type, or between a pointer to an object type and an integer type. (Incrementing is equivalent to adding one.)

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unsigned int ui1, ui2, sum;

if (~ui1 < ui2) {
  /* handle error_handler("Overflow Error", NULL, EOVERFLOW); condition */
}
sum = ui1 + ui2;

Subtraction

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signed int si1, si2, result;

if ( ((si1^si2)&((si1-si2)^si1)) >> (sizeof(int)*CHAR_BIT-1) ) {
  /* handle error_handler("OVERFLOW ERROR", NULL, EOVERFLOW); condition */
}
result = si1 - si2;

Multiplication

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signed int si1, si2, result;

signed long long tmp = (signed long long)si1 * (signed long long)si2;

/* 
 * If the product cannot be repesented as a 32-bit integer 
 * then handle as an error condition 
 */
if ( (tmp > INT_MAX) || (tmp < INT_MIN) ) {
  /* Thehandle product cannot fit in a 32-bit int */
  error_handler("OVERFLOW ERROR", NULL, EOVERFLOW);
error condition */
}
result = (int)tmp;

It is important to note that the above The preceeding code is only compliant on systems where long long is at least twice the size of int. On systems where this does not hold the following compliant solution may be used to ensure signed overflow does not occur.

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