(Numeric) should -7 % 5 = -2 ?

Richard Brodie R.Brodie at rl.ac.uk
Tue Jul 1 04:12:13 EDT 2003


"Tim Roberts" <timr at probo.com> wrote in message news:3g32gvcolis4485956egtc35akm6lh3uq5 at 4ax.com...

> Contradicting Fredrik, something I do with great reluctance, the C standard
> specifies that the behavior is implementation-defined, so in fact BOTH answers
> "implement C semantics".

Only if you're looking at an old version of the standard; it's not implementation
dependent in C99.






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