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From: hunter@Oswego.EDU (Eric Hunter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: A define problem
Keywords: define
Message-ID: <1991Jan8.012923.3390@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Date: 8 Jan 91 01:29:23 GMT
References: <440@bally.Bally.COM>
Reply-To: hunter@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Eric Hunter)
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Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY
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In article <440@bally.Bally.COM> siva@bally.Bally.COM (Siva Chelliah) writes:

>#define half(x) (x)/2
>main ()
>{
>  int i=5;
>  printf( "i/2 = %d\n",half(i-5));
>}
>This program prints 3 instead of 0 !  How can I make it print 0 ?

You could get a new compiler. ;^}

Eric.
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