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==Methods to mitigate integer overflow problems==

Programming languages implement various mitigation methods against an accidental overflow: [[Ada (programming language)|Ada]], [[Seed7]] (and certain variants of functional languages), trigger an exception condition on overflow, while [[Python (programming language)|Python]] (since 2.4) seamlessly converts internal representation of the number to match its growth, eventually representing it as <code>long</code> which--whose ability is only limited by the available memory.<ref>[https://docs.python.org/2/reference/expressions.html Python documentation], section 5.1 Arithmetic conversions.</ref>

Run-time overflow detection implementation <code>AddressSanitizer</code> is also available for [[C compiler]]s.