Overflow Condition
We can change this condition to 10000 or even more. Just try some more numbers. How far can you go with the limit? We know that integers are allocated a fixed space in memory (i.e. 32 bits in most PCs) and we can not store a number which requires more bits than integer, into a variable of data type, int. If the sum of integers becomes larger than this limit (i.e. sum of integers becomes larger than 32 bits can store), two things can happen here. The program will give an error during execution, compiler can not detect such errors. These errors are known as run time errors. The second thing is that 32 bits of the result will be stored and extra bits will be wasted, so our result will not be correct as we have wasted the information. This is called overflow. When we try to store larger information in, than a data type can store, overflow condition occurs. When overflow condition occurs either a run-time error is generated or wrong value is stored.
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