From:	"Lars O. Hansen" <lars DOT o DOT hansen AT gmx DOT de>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: C preprocessor not capable of floating point division ?
Date:	Sat, 21 Dec 2002 05:58:12 +0100
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> But DJ Delorie is right, the preprocessor or compiler which does expression evaluation beforehand
> "obeyes" the rules of x86 "integer division", so 4/8 is 0.


so it's 0 even when assigned to a float: float a=4/8 results in a being 0.

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