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brigade on June 4, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: We Need Hardware Traps for Integer Overflow

No one is advocating eliminating modulo arithmetic - the trapping instructions would be different ops, just like on architectures that already implement this such as MIPS.

vonmoltke on June 4, 2014 [–]

OK, so then its on the compiler to use the non-exception-generating instructions when generating the assembly.

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