"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
> Correct. In the cited case, the code could read:
>
> foo = some_other_ulong * 1234 / 1000;
>
> The complier sometimes optimizes the wrong stuff so 1234/1000 might
> get optimized to 1 which is not what you want.
If the compiler does that, it isn't a C compiler. Even K&R was clear
on this, and the grammars in C90 and C99 require left-to-right
associativity for "*" and "/".
David Wragg
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