overflow bit

n. 1. [techspeak] A flag on some processors indicating an attempt to
calculate a result too large for a register to hold. 2. More generally, an
indication of any kind of capacity overload condition. Well, the Ada
description was baroque all right, but I could hack it OK until they got to
the exception handling. .. that set my overflow bit. 3. The hypothetical bit
that will be set if a hacker doesn't get to make a trip to the Room of
Porcelain Fixtures: I'd better process an internal interrupt before the
overflow bit gets set. Crunchly and the overflow bit. (The next cartoon in
the Crunchly saga is 73-07-29. The previous one is 73-06-04.

