Article: Q61190
Product(s): See article
Version(s): 6.00 | 6.00
Operating System(s): MS-DOS | OS/2
Keyword(s): ENDUSER | | mspl13_c
Last Modified: 6-NOV-1990
The following information is taken from the C Version 6.00 README.DOC
file.
Arithmetic Operations on Signed Short Values
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In C 5.10 and Microsoft QuickC(R) 2.00, arithmetic on constants of
type signed short is done using a signed long value. C 6.00 conforms
to the ANSI specification by performing arithmetic operations on
signed shorts and yielding a signed short value.
This causes overflow in some instances of constant arithmetic, most
noticeably, multiplication. For example, when interpreted as a signed
short, 48*1000 results in a value of -15232 rather than 48000.