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From: rtm@christmas.UUCP (Richard Minner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Is #define THING -10 completely safe?
Message-ID: <33@christmas.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 91 02:19:01 GMT
Reply-To: rtm@island.COM (Richard Minner)
Organization: Island Graphics, Sacramento, California
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In article <1991Jan23.015757.22220@portia.Stanford.EDU> fangchin@portia.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang) writes:
>... from my /usr/include/limits.h
>#define INT_MIN     -2147483648  /* min decimal value of an "int" */

Something I've been curious about, should the above be
#define INT_MIN   (-2147483648)

The precedence rules seem to imply that ()'s aren't needed
with a negative integer constant.  Could someone confirm or
deny this please?  (I always use ()'s out of habit.)
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