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From: scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Is this a bug in Turbo C 2.0?
Message-ID: <1180@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 90 22:53:12 GMT
References: <3210@pur-phy>
Organization: SDRC, Cincinnati
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In article <3210@pur-phy>, murphy@pur-phy (William J. Murphy) writes:
> [ should long = short + short; be done with short or long
> arithmetic? ]

Either is acceptable.  ANSI C requires the arithmetic to be done
in short -- if the result overflows, the results are undefined,
thus getting the right answer (by actually doing long arithmetic)
is acceptable.
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