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Re: Stupid off-topic question
> Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 22:49:09 +0200
> From: Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
> > The rule in C99 is that (a/b)*b + a%b == a
> > and than / truncates towards 0.
> ^^^^ that ?
>
> Hmmm, has this changed with C99 ?
Yes. Before C99 it used to be machine-dependent whether it truncated
towards 0 or towards -MAX_INT. The '(a/b)*b + a%b == a' rule was
always there, though.
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>