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Long + Long not bigger than Long.MAX_VALUE

If I have an assignment

Long c = a + b;

Is there an easy way to check that a + b is not bigger/smaller than Long.MAX_VALUE/Long.MIN_VALUE?

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Kaur Kase Avatar asked Jan 29 '12 22:01

Kaur Kase


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2 Answers

Using Guava, it's as simple as

long c = LongMath.checkedAdd(a, b); // throws an ArithmeticException on overflow

which is, I'd like to think, very readable indeed. (LongMath Javadoc here.)

For the sake of fairness, I'll mention that Apache Commons provides ArithmeticUtils.addAndCheck(long, long).

If you want to know how they work, well, the answer is one line of bit-hackery for Guava: the result doesn't overflow if (a ^ b) < 0 | (a ^ (a + b)) >= 0. This is based on the trick that the bitwise XOR of two numbers is nonnegative iff they have the same sign.

So (a ^ b) < 0 is true if a and b have different signs, and if that's the case it'll never overflow. Or, if (a ^ (a + b)) >= 0, then a + b has the same sign as a, so it didn't overflow and become negative.

(For more tricks like this, investigate the lovely book Hacker's Delight.)

Apache uses more complicated casework based on the sign of a and b.

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Louis Wasserman Avatar answered Oct 08 '22 10:10

Louis Wasserman


It's only an issue if they have the same sign (and are both !0), since otherwise you're safe from overflow. If overflow occurs, the sign of the result will flip. So:

long r = a + b;
if ( (a < 0 && b < 0 && r >= 0) ||
     (a > 0 && b > 0 && r <= 0) ) {
    // Overflow occurred
}
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T.J. Crowder Avatar answered Oct 08 '22 10:10

T.J. Crowder