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Subject: Re:  New operator: /*
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Date: Mon, 27-Aug-84 03:09:36 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 27 03:09:36 1984
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From:      Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn@BRL-VLD.ARPA>

Try
	short	a, b, c, d;
	d = (long)a * b / c;
The one typecast is sufficient to force all the arithmetic to be done
with long arithmetic, then the result is coerced back into short on
assignment to `d'.  If your compiler is sufficiently clever, it will
take advantage of the fact that the result of the division is only
needed as a short; in any case it is obligated to return the correct
answer.