PDP-8 signed overflow detection

Kyle Owen kylevowen at gmail.com
Thu Mar 21 02:26:37 CDT 2019


What is the shortest subroutine on a PDP-8 which will add two variables in
RAM and return the saturated sum (that is, returning 2047 or -2048 upon
overflow, otherwise the sum) in the accumulator?

Kyle


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