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how to breakin gdb on overflow error

Hi,
I need to find places in the code where a short int ( 2 bytes) is
assigned value bigger
than 65K. I remember this will cause overflow flag in cpu control word
to set.
How do I see this and break in gdb? .. some kind of trappings.
Thanks
B K.

Jan 10 '06 #1
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