Re: int / int ?

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From: Dik T. Winter
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 00:00

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In article <912408515.26096.1.nnrp-07.9e9809e7@news.demon.co.uk> "Chris Marriott" <chris@NOSPAM.skymap.com> writes:
 > What I'm asking is, given the expression "a*b/c", is there anything in the
 > language definition which says that this will be evaluated as:
 >     (a*b)/c
 > or is the compiler free to evaluate it as:
 >     a*(b/c)
 > if it wishes to do so?

It is only allowed to evaluate it the second way if the result is *not*
different.  I.e. nearly never.
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Date: 1998/11/30
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