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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>overflow bit</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../O.html" title="O"/><link rel="previous" href="overclock.html" title="overclock"/><link rel="next" href="overrun.html" title="overrun"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">overflow bit</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="overclock.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">O</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="overrun.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="overflow-bit"/><dt xmlns="" id="overflow-bit"><b>overflow bit</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [techspeak] A <a href="../F/flag.html"><i class="glossterm">flag</i></a> on some processors
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indicating an attempt to calculate a result too large for a register to
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hold. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. More generally, an indication of any kind of capacity overload
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condition. “<span class="quote">Well, the Ada description was
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<a href="../B/baroque.html"><i class="glossterm">baroque</i></a> all right, but I could hack it OK until they
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got to the exception handling ... that set my overflow bit.</span>”
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</p></dd><dd><p> 3. The hypothetical bit that will be set if a hacker doesn't get to
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make a trip to the Room of Porcelain Fixtures: “<span class="quote">I'd better process an
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internal interrupt before the overflow bit gets set.</span>”</p><div class="mediaobject"><a id="crunchly73-07-24"/><img src="../graphics/73-07-24.png"/><div class="caption"><p>Crunchly and the <a href="overflow-bit.html"><i class="glossterm">overflow bit</i></a>.</p><p>(The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is
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<a href="../B/bug.html#crunchly73-07-29">73-07-29</a>. The previous one is
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<a href="../G/glitch.html#crunchly73-06-04">73-06-04</a>.)</p></div></div></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="overclock.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../O.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="overrun.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">overclock </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> overrun</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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