Re: Boeing 787 integer overflow

[Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid>]

On 04.05.15 01:54, robin.vowels@gmail.com wrote:
>> A software fix might be nice, such as increasing the counter to 64 bits to
>> >push the overflow time out to something ridiculous,
> That isn't the solution.
> The solution is to have an appropriate error handler.

If the variable has system-wide effects, I think error
handling would require a little more than a few lines of
code for overflow. Also provided that detecting overflow can
be made fast enough in the first place.

So, if the bit size could be increased without affecting
the system in other ways, this looks like a much cheaper
solution to me.