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		gsnedders on Dec 18, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Performance Cost of Integer Overflow Checking x86 doesn't support it.

asgard1024 on Dec 18, 2014 [–]

Ah well. I work on zSeries mainframes, and this architecture does support interrupts on integer overflows (as well as many other number formats). So I thought that x86 architecture already got that option too.

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