[thayne]

It is beneficial that the behavior is defined, and therefore consistent. So you don't run into cases where it works on your laptop, but not on your server. Also, in this particular case, overflowing is probably not terrible, since you are computing a hash code. The worst case is that the distribution may not be as even as you hoped.

[mehrdadn]

> It is beneficial that the behavior is defined, and therefore consistent. So you don't run into cases where it works on your laptop, but not on your server.

I already don't run into such cases though? Do you run into cases where changing an overflow to wrap-around (e.g. maybe via unsigned?) makes it suddenly your code work on 2 machines, whereas leaving it as overflow makes it work on 1 machine but not the other?

[thayne]

That was the example given in the original article

[mehrdadn]

Yes, but I was asking about your experience.