Checking for underflow/overflow in C++?

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To check for over/underflow in arithmetic check the result compared to the original values.

uint32 a,b;
//assign values
uint32 result = a + b;
if (result < a) {
    //Overflow
}

For your specific the check would be:

if (a > (c-b)) {
    //Underflow
}

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