3 docs tagged with "overflow"

Overview

Integer types can be signed (negative and positive) or unsigned (only positive). Understanding signedness prevents bugs and overflow issues.

Stack overflow on a hosted operating system is an event. A guard page is hit, the process receives a signal, the debugger stops on the offending frame, and you have a stack trace pointing at the recursion you forgot to bound. Stack overflow on a bare-metal Cortex-M is not an event. It is a silent write to a variable that belongs to something else, discovered later, in code that is innocent.