On 27 July 2016 at 09:57, Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> wrote:
> it could be
> coded using something like
>
> accum->maxdig += NBASE - 1;
> if (accum->maxdig > (INT_MAX - INT_MAX / NBASE) / (NBASE - 1))
> Propagate carries...
>
Oops, that's not quite right because maxdig is actually epresents the
max possible value divided by NBASE-1 in mul_var(), so actually it
ought to have been accum->maxdig++ in the first line.
Regards,
Dean