In my experience it's generally not the case, you generally do these tests if you're about to truncate a value or do sanity checks. If the value is too big to f

In my experience it's generally not the case, you generally do these tests if you're about to truncate a value or do sanity checks. If the value is too big to fit the variable then it should've been caught earlier, when the value was loaded in the first place (i.e. strtol or whatever).