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From: CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Is this a bug in Turbo C 2.0?
Message-ID: <90068.042959CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 9 Mar 90 09:29:59 GMT
References: <3210@pur-phy> <1180@sdrc.UUCP>
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In article <1180@sdrc.UUCP>, scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones) says:
>
>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.

But relying on the result to be correct in *unacceptable*.


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