Possible C compiler bug on 8086 machines

[Andrew Koenig]

In article <3577 at bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> alanf at bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Alan Grant Finlay) writes:

>    printf("This doesn't work : %d, %d\n",65536/512,512);

> This doesn't work : 128, 0

> Is this a problem with my machine or the printf routine?

It's probably a bug in your program.

If your compiler stores ints in 16 bits, then 65536 is a long
and 65536/512 is also a long.  You should therefore do one of the
following:

	printf("This should work : %d, %d\n", (int)(65536/512), 512);
	printf("This might also work : %ld, %d\n", 65536/512, 512);
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