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    Upvotes37Top Answeredited Jun 16, 2011 at 7:27

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    From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_overflow:

    the condition that occurs when a calculation produces a result that is greater in magnitude than that which a given register or storage location can store or represent.

    So, for instance:

    uint32_t x = 1UL << 31;
    x *= 2; // Overflow!

    Note that as @R mentions in a comment below, the C standard suggests:

    A computation involving unsigned operands can never overflow, because a result that cannot be represented by the resulting unsigned integer type is reduced modulo the number ...

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