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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Boeing 787 integer overflow
Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 14:17:26 +0200
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On Mon, 04 May 2015 13:26:50 +0200, G.B. wrote:

> On 04.05.15 10:45, robin.vowels@gmail.com wrote:

>> Detecting overflow is typically very fast.
> 
> Is it fast?

It is not trivial to handle hardware counter's overflows, e.g. by extending
it, like 32->64, a lot of ugly issues with race conditions.

As a programmer I always suggest to scrap garbage hardware. Engineers
usually propose the opposite - to fix hardware by software means. That is
how people get hurt! (:-()

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