overflow bit

overflow bit

(1)A flag on some processors indicating an attempt tocalculate a result too large for the destination register tohold.

overflow bit

(2)More generally, an indication of any kind of capacityoverload condition. "Well, the Ada description wasbaroque all right, but I could hack it OK until they got tothe exception handling ... that set my overflow bit."

overflow bit

(3)The hypothetical bit that will be set if a hacker doesn'tget to make a trip to the Room of Porcelain Fixtures: "I'dbetter process an internal interrupt before the overflow bitgets set".