Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!necntc!ima!haddock!karl
From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: The need for D-scussion (was Re: D Wishlist)
Message-ID: <2957@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 88 00:35:59 GMT
References: <12176@brl-adm.ARPA> <1988Mar11.215238.976@utzoo.uucp> <3732@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
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In article <3732@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> tada@athena.mit.edu (Michael Zehr) writes:
>a function the returns both a % b and a / b at the same time.

ANSI C has two flavors of this, in function form: div() and ldiv().  The
return value is a structure, which makes it a bit awkward to use if you want
both results.  Also, unlike the / and % operators, the result is well-defined
(guaranteed vax-like) for negative numbers, so it is not necessarily identical
to the pair {a/b, a%b}.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint