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<h3 class="section">15.3 Type and Range Checking</h3>

<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&rsquo;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 <small>GDB</small> checks for these errors according to the
rules of the current source language.  Although <small>GDB</small> does not check
the statements in your program, it can check expressions entered directly
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