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| <h3 class="section">15.3 Type and Range Checking</h3> |
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| <p>Some languages are designed to guard you against making seemingly common |
| errors through a series of compile- and run-time checks. These include |
| checking the type of arguments to functions and operators and making |
| sure mathematical overflows are caught at run time. Checks such as |
| these help to ensure a program's correctness once it has been compiled |
| by eliminating type mismatches and providing active checks for range |
| errors when your program is running. |
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| <p>By default <span class="sc">gdb</span> checks for these errors according to the |
| rules of the current source language. Although <span class="sc">gdb</span> does not check |
| the statements in your program, it can check expressions entered directly |
| into <span class="sc">gdb</span> for evaluation via the <code>print</code> command, for example. |
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