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From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: Java vs Ada 95 (Was Re: Once again,
 Ada absent from DoD SBIR solicitation)
Date: 1996/10/17
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Date: 1996-10-17T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <dewar.845506606@merv>, Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>Hmmm! I thought that Java left overflow undefined, I don't call that
>portable!

No, Java defines the result as wrap-around arithmetic.  So an overflow
will give you the "wrong" answer (at least *I* would call it wrong, in
most situations), but it always gives you the *same* wrong answer on all
machines.

- Bob