2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
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overflow bit
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. 1. [techspeak] A flag on some processors indicating an attempt to
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calculate a result too large for a register to hold. 2. More generally, an
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indication of any kind of capacity overload condition. Well, the Ada
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description was baroque all right, but I could hack it OK until they got to
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the exception handling. .. that set my overflow bit. 3. The hypothetical bit
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that will be set if a hacker doesn't get to make a trip to the Room of
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Porcelain Fixtures: I'd better process an internal interrupt before the
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overflow bit gets set. Crunchly and the overflow bit. (The next cartoon in
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the Crunchly saga is 73-07-29. The previous one is 73-06-04.
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