Hardware Traps for Integer Overflow

[bearophile via Digitalmars-d]

A request for hardware overflow tests:
http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1154

 From the blog post:

>Processors should support integer math instructions that 
>optionally trap on overflow. Because popular architectures lack 
>this feature, otherwise excellent modern systems programming 
>languages, such as Rust, Go, and D, have default integer types 
>that wrap.<

>This post isn’t as much of an opinion piece as a plea to the 
>folks at ARM, Intel, and AMD: Please provide this feature. It is 
>needed in order to make high-level languages faster and 
>low-level languages saner.<

 From the comments:

>I’ve grown to dislike unsigned types but agree that they are a 
>perfectly valid design point in a language that avoids the 
>serious problems with implicit coercion that C/C++ have. Rust 
>gets unsigned right, for example.<

Bye,
bearophile