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Interesting project; are you aware of any actual users?

Meanwhile, in the real world, C++ programmers typically use operator+(int,int) with UB on overflow because it's conveniently built into the language.

The problem with C++ isn't that doing the right thing is impossible, it's that doing the wrong thing is the default, with no dependencies and no syntactic overhead.



> Meanwhile, in the real world, C++ programmers typically use operator+(int,int) with UB on overflow because it's conveniently built into the language.

In more than a decade of coding with C++ I have never been bitten by a signed overflow bug which is UB. However I have been hit by unsigned underflow (e.g. if(2u - 3u > whatever)) way too often even though it is perfectly "legal" from the point of view of the language.




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