Another little story for people that think the multi-precision integers are mostly good for cryptography: http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=614&Itemid=

Bye,
bearophile

bearophile wrote:
> Another little story for people that think the multi-precision integers are mostly good for cryptography:
> http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=614&Itemid=

Avoiding computation overflow is never a bad thing :)


Sean

bearophile wrote:
> Another little story for people that think the multi-precision integers are mostly good for cryptography:
> http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=614&Itemid=
> 
> Bye,
> bearophile

That's what happens when people use "undefined" behavior as an ambiguous expression that can mean both "illegal" behavior, and "unspecified in some aspects but valid" behavior.
Illegal behavior should be called illegal behavior, period. (http://lists.puremagic.com/pipermail/digitalmars-d/2008-April/036814.html)


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