C# Unchecked Statement

In this chapter you will learn:

• What is unchecked statement in C#?
• What is the advantage and disadvantage of Unchecked Statement?
• How to use unchecked statement in C sharp programming?

The unchecked statement ignores the stack overflow exception and executes the program so, the output can be incorrect.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace Unchecked_Statement
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            int num;
            // assign maximum value
            num = int.MaxValue;
            try
            {
                unchecked
                {
                    // forces stack overflow exception
                    num = num + 1;
                    Console.WriteLine(num);
                }
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(e.ToString());
            }
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

Here, the correct output should be 2147483648 but the output is -2147483648 which is wrong because of unchecked statements as it ignores exception and put output on screen.

Output

-2147483648
__

Summary

In this chapter you learned what unchecked statement is in C# and how to use it in programming. In next chapter you will learn about Lock Statement in C#.