How to prevent integer overflow in Java code? [duplicate]

One way to check for an overflow is to have the operands promoted to a larger type (of double the original operand bit length) then perform the operation, and then see if the resulting value is too large for the original type, e.g.

int sum(int a, int b) {
    long r = (long)a + b;
    if (r >>> 32 != 0) {    // no sign extension
        throw new MyOverflowException(a, b);
    }
    return (int)r;
}

If your original type is a long, you’d have to use BigInteger as that larger type.