Is #define THING -10 completely safe?
Richard Minner
rtm at christmas.UUCP
Fri Jan 25 13:19:01 AEST 1991
In article <1991Jan23.015757.22220 at portia.Stanford.EDU> fangchin at portia.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang) writes:
>... from my /usr/include/limits.h
>#define INT_MIN -2147483648 /* min decimal value of an "int" */
Something I've been curious about, should the above be
#define INT_MIN (-2147483648)
The precedence rules seem to imply that ()'s aren't needed
with a negative integer constant. Could someone confirm or
deny this please? (I always use ()'s out of habit.)
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