overflow bit
1. A flag on some processors indicating an attempt to calculate a result too
large for the destination register to hold.
2. More generally, an indication of any kind of capacity overload condition.
"Well, the Ada description was baroque all right, but I could hack it OK until
they got to the exception handling ... that set my overflow bit."
3. The hypothetical bit that will be set if a hacker doesn't get to make a trip
to the Room of Porcelain Fixtures: "I'd better process an internal interrupt
before the overflow bit gets set".
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