Is this a bug in Turbo C 2.0?

[Charles Hannum]

In article <1180 at sdrc.UUCP>, scjones at sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones) says:
>
>In article <3210 at pur-phy>, murphy at pur-phy (William J. Murphy) writes:
>> [ should long = short + short; be done with short or long
>> arithmetic? ]
>
>Either is acceptable.  ANSI C requires the arithmetic to be done
>in short -- if the result overflows, the results are undefined,
>thus getting the right answer (by actually doing long arithmetic)
>is acceptable.

But relying on the result to be correct in *unacceptable*.


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