Re: [Boost-users] size_type doubts / integer library..

At 8:32 AM +0200 8/17/08, Zeljko Vrba wrote:

Some machines (e.g. x86) do not raise an exception but set an overflow flag which may be tested by a single instruction, yet I don't know of a compiler which offers run-time overflow checking as a code-generation option.

See gcc's -ftrapv option.