Re: Any more graceful way to saturate adds?

On Apr 12, 9:40 am, Terence  <spamt...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I wouldn't do it that way.
> I would add the two supposedly unsigned 8-bit integers and test the 9
> th bit for 1, which if present, the addition has overflowed.
>
> Note that any non-overflow result of 255 is for your purposes
> indistinguishable from an overflow,
> So you just add, test 9th bit, jump around or load or OR 255h.

Make that last "255h" into 255 or else 0FFh! (Sigh!)