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73<p>Some languages are designed to guard you against making seemingly common
74errors through a series of compile- and run-time checks.  These include
75checking the type of arguments to functions and operators and making
76sure mathematical overflows are caught at run time.  Checks such as
77these help to ensure a program&rsquo;s correctness once it has been compiled
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81<p>By default <small>GDB</small> checks for these errors according to the
82rules of the current source language.  Although <small>GDB</small> does not check
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