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<p>A variation of the above is when a value is incremented/decremented
beyond it's domain. This is a common problem with for loops.</p>
<pre class="programlisting">#include &lt;cassert&gt;
#include &lt;exception&gt;
#include &lt;iostream&gt;
#include "../include/safe_integer.hpp"
void detected_msg(bool detected){
std::cout &lt;&lt; (detected ? "error detected!" : "error NOT detected! ") &lt;&lt; std::endl;
}
int main(int argc, const char * argv[]){
std::cout &lt;&lt; "example 3:";
std::cout &lt;&lt; "undetected underflow in data type" &lt;&lt; std::endl;
std::cout &lt;&lt; "Not using safe numerics" &lt;&lt; std::endl;
try{
unsigned int x = 0;
// the following silently produces an incorrect result
--x;
// because C/C++ implicitly converts mis-matched arguments to int
// suggests that the operation is correct
assert(x == -1);
// even though it's not !!!
// so the error is not detected!
std::cout &lt;&lt; x &lt;&lt; " != " &lt;&lt; -1 &lt;&lt; std::endl;
detected_msg(false);
}
catch(std::exception){
assert(false); // never arrive here
}
// solution: replace unsigned int with safe&lt;unsigned int&gt;
std::cout &lt;&lt; "Using safe numerics" &lt;&lt; std::endl;
try{
using namespace boost::numeric;
safe&lt;unsigned int&gt; x = 0;
// decrement unsigned to less than zero throws exception
--x;
assert(false); // never arrive here
}
catch(std::exception &amp; e){
std::cout &lt;&lt; e.what() &lt;&lt; std::endl;
detected_msg(true);
}
return 0;
}
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