# A plea for int overflow checking as the default

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-plea-for-int-overflow-checking-as-the-default/3338>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Tags:** question, proposal, integer-overflow\
**Created:** [April 22, 2017, 3:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-plea-for-int-overflow-checking-as-the-default/3338 "2017-04-22T15:49:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jean\_Michel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jean_michel/32/8282_2.png) [@Jean\_Michel](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Jean_Michel)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 12:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-plea-for-int-overflow-checking-as-the-default/3338/68 "2018-02-20T00:29:01Z")

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Thank you! (I found myself the workaround). I think your package is very useful.  
I wonder if a type Union{SafeInt , Bigint} where on overflow conversion is done could work and be faster in the above example (where most Ints are small, very few are big) than using BigInts

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