From: Paul Shirley <Paul AT foobar DOT co DOT uk DOT chocolat>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: fixed point math: NEED HELP QUICK!
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 02:15:42 +0000
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In article <199701290130 DOT UAA02417 AT delorie DOT com>, DJ Delorie
<dj AT delorie DOT com> writes
>
>> function.  Anyway, here's my problem;  To my understanding the following
>> are 100% equal:
>> 
>> other_stuff = stuff / 256;
>> other_stuff = stuff << 8;
>
>The second multiplies.  Try ">> 8" instead.
>

And if other_stuff is signed, >>8 and /256 aren't identical either.
(which might save you some debugging later ;)
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