Overflow flag
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overflow-flag-293-3944142
title:
Overflow flag
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In computer processors, the overflow flag is usually a single bit in a system status register used to indicate when an arithmetic overflow has occurred in an operation, indicating that the signed two's-complement result would not fit in the number of bits used for the result. Some architectures may be configured to automatically generate an exception on an operation resulting in overflow. An example, suppose we add 127 and 127 using 8-bit registers. 127+127 is 254, but using 8-bit arithmetic the
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Processor flag indicating whether signed arithmetic overflow has occurred
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overflow_flag
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2022-10-19T10:03:22Z
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