Is #define THING -10 completely safe?

[Richard Minner]

In article <1991Jan23.015757.22220 at portia.Stanford.EDU> fangchin at portia.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang) writes:
>... from my /usr/include/limits.h
>#define INT_MIN     -2147483648  /* min decimal value of an "int" */

Something I've been curious about, should the above be
#define INT_MIN   (-2147483648)

The precedence rules seem to imply that ()'s aren't needed
with a negative integer constant.  Could someone confirm or
deny this please?  (I always use ()'s out of habit.)
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