How to avoid overflow in expr. A * B - C * D

Question

I need to compute an expression which looks like: A*B - C*D, where their types are: signed long long int A, B, C, D; Each number can be really big (not

Answer 1

E = max(A,B,C,D)
A1 = A -E;
B1 = B -E;
C1 = C -E;
D1 = D -E;

then

A*B - C*D = (A1+E)*(B1+E)-(C1+E)(D1+E) = (A1+B1-C1-D1)*E + A1*B1 -C1*D1