From: "A. Sinan Unur" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: C preprocessor not capable of floating point division ? Date: 21 Dec 2002 04:44:45 GMT Organization: Cornell University Lines: 29 Sender: asu1 AT cornell DOT invalid (on pool-141-149-208-78.syr.east.verizon.net) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-141-149-208-78.syr.east.verizon.net X-Trace: news01.cit.cornell.edu 1040445885 14579 141.149.208.78 (21 Dec 2002 04:44:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet AT news01 DOT cit DOT cornell DOT edu NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Dec 2002 04:44:45 GMT User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com "Lars O. Hansen" wrote in news:au0qd9$hkj$1 AT news DOT online DOT de: > so sth. like int a=4/8 (which the preprocessor should evaluate) does > not become 0.5 ? (although it is highly unlikely that the programmer > did not intend to have just that) i would not call that person a programmer. > or #define sth 8; int a=2/sth; results in a being 0? > > Is this a problem of the C language or specific to gccs C > preprocessor? no offense, but the problem is in your head. an int is not a floating point variable. how do you propose to store 0.5 in an integer? > How can I achieve floating point division or similar having the same > result by the C preprocessor for #define d values ? you'll have to clarify what you are trying to do. -- A. Sinan Unur asu1 AT c-o-r-n-e-l-l DOT edu Remove dashes for address Spam bait: mailto:uce AT ftc DOT gov