Integer Overflow

[Michael Hudson]

"Ursus Horibilis" <ursus_horibilis at hotmail.com> writes:

> Okay.  My next project was to do the same thing with 64-bit
> numbers.

This makes a difference how, exactly?

> So how do I disable trapping for integer overflow?

You can't, in the way you want anyway.

You could always write a class that uses longs and chops off all but
the first n bits of the result.  This wouldn't do performance any
favours, I uspect.

Not that in 2.1:

    >>> 2*sys.maxint
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
    OverflowError: integer multiplication

but in 2.2:

    >>> 2*sys.maxint
    4294967294L

Cheers,
M.

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