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Most processors have carry flags which they set on addition overflow, so it is a good idea to access them whenever possible. Most of them also have widening multiply instructions that can be used to detect overflow of the non-widening version. Both GCC and Clang offer a way to detect an overflow for security critical applications. Reference: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/LanguageExtensions.html#checked-arithmetic-builtins