Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!ukma!psuvm.bitnet!rice.bitnet!maxham From: MAXHAM@RICE.BITNET (Mark Maxham) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: 32bit = 16bit x 16bit Message-ID: <146MAXHAM@RICE> Date: Tue, 20-Oct-87 15:51:29 EST Article-I.D.: RICE.146MAXHAM Posted: Tue Oct 20 15:51:29 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Oct-87 09:06:18 EST References: <141@kesmai.COM> 7349@alice.UUCP Organization: Rice University - ICSA Lines: 7 Xref: mnetor comp.lang.c:5084 comp.sys.atari.st:5866 comp.sys.amiga:9793 But the 68000 MULS and MULU commands multiply two sixteen bit words into a 32 bit longword. Thus they are defined. Is the question how C translates from multiplicitive expressions into actual machine instructions? Mark Maxham maxham@icsa.rice.edu