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Interesting. I guess most/many arch's overflow flag is set when the sign bit changes and the carry flag when the result rollsover the word size.

I think most people colloquially call going A + 1 = B where B < A an overflow. Interesting. I knew they're different things, but never really thought about my word choice.




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