Multiplying two shorts...

[The Beach Bum]

In article <576 at proxftl.UUCP> bill at proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
>What this means is that if the product of the values of the two
>shorts will fit in an int, the code will work as expected.  If
>not, then the result IS undefined.

since this discussion orginally involved 16x16=32 multiply instructions,
i thought it might be nice to point out that any two 16 bit numbers can
be multiplied, and the result will always fit in 32 bits, without 
overflow.

unsigned:	FFFF x FFFF = FFFE0001
signed:		7FFF x 7FFF = 3FFF0001
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