Need reviewer: JDK 8 CR for Support Integer overflow (original) (raw)

Florian Weimer fweimer at bfk.de
Fri Feb 3 12:12:07 UTC 2012


On 3 February 2012 00:11, Florian Weimer <fweimer at bfk.de> wrote:

Would it make sense to replace (x ^ r) < 0 && (x ^ y) >= 0 with (x ^ y ^ r) < 0? That would not be correct. For example, it would signal overflow for -1 + 1.

Oops. But there has to be a way to implement this using just one comparison.

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