overflow flag
The overflow flag is a status flag in computer processors that indicates whether the previous arithmetic operation resulted in a value too large to be represented in the available number of bits.
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- arithmetic overflow
- assembly language flags
- binary overflow
- bitwise overflow
- buffer overflow
- carry flag
- cpu flags
- data overflow
- flag checking
- flag clearing
- flag manipulation
- flag register
- flag setting
- floating-point overflow
- integer overflow
- memory overflow
- numeric overflow
- parity flag
- sign flag
- stack overflow
- zero flag