Help to give out the correct number or error

Hey. I have a program that raises a number to a power. But if, for example, in my function the type of all the numbers i8 and my result is more or less than the number 127 and -128, I get to get panic (this is in IDE), but in the usual console I get some random numbers, even negative ones that number with a plus sign.
This test helps, but very crookedly:

if result > 127 || result < -128 || number >= 0 && result < 0 {
    println!("Some error text..");
} else {
    println!("Result: {}", result);
}

How to solve this problem?

P.S. This is my simple pow function:

fn pow(n: i8, p: i8) -> i8 {
    if p == 1 {
        return n;
    }

    n * pow(n, p - 1)
}

Is it possible for me to handle this function using a match? I tried, but it did not work :frowning:

add to Cargo.toml

[profile.release]
overflow-checks=true

or use checked or overflowing functions.

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Note that the first two conditions can never be true, since you're testing whether the i8 is out of its limits, which it can never be.

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In principle it is your responsibility to never allow operation to produce a value that is too large for its type. In release mode Rust allows values to silently overflow.

There's checked_mul and checked_pow that can tell you when the result is out of range.