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Methods to mitigate integer overflow problems: Minor grammatical correction.
top: past participle of "overflow" is "overflowed", not "overflown" (the latter is from "overfly")
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An overflow condition gives incorrect results and, particularly if the possibility has not been anticipated, can compromise a program's reliability and [[software security|security]].
 
On some processors like [[graphics processing unit]]s (GPUs) and [[digital signal processor]]s (DSPs) which support [[saturation arithmetic]], overflownoverflowed results would be "clamped", i.e. set to the minimum or the maximum value in the representable range, rather than wrapped around.
 
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