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Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 07:36:39 -0700
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Andreas Schwab wrote:
There is no way to detect overflow after the fact because overflow
invokes undefined behaviour.  You need to either check the range
beforehand, or use special builtins offered by the compiler
(eg. __builtin_smul_overflow in GCC).

All true, and Emacs lib/intprops.h has an INT_MULTIPLY_OVERFLOW macro that arranges for all that. On the x86-64 with GCC, it costs one additional instruction (typically a conditional branch that is not taken) to check for overflow in machine-word integer multiplication. Checking for fixnum overflow (as opposed to machine-word overflow) requires one more conditional branch after some quick bit-twiddling.



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