# 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:** ![JeffreySarnoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jeffreysarnoff/32/1980_2.png) [@JeffreySarnoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/JeffreySarnoff)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 12:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-plea-for-int-overflow-checking-as-the-default/3338/73 "2018-02-20T00:48:33Z")

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yes That is what I meant. Ok – on the stack.

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