[PATCH] Document arithmetic overflow semantics

[Fergus Henderson]

On 13-Feb-2003, Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com> wrote:
> > What do you mean by this, exactly?  Java is defied as having signed
> > two's complement arithmetic.
> 
> At the implementation level, the difference between signed and unsigned
> arithmetic (for operations like plus and minus) is in whether overflow
> is an issue or not

There are operations other than plus and minus.

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