In article <3.0.1.32.19970505135415.00a83a70@world.std.com>,
David Chase  <chase@world.std.com> wrote:
>It would also be nice if they could get a macro
>defined (e.g., DIVIDE_ROUNDS_TO_NEGATIVE_INFINITY) so that
>people could (perish the thought) write portable code that
>used integer division.

try:

#define DIVIDE_ROUNDS_TO_0 (-3/2 + 2)
#define DIVIDE_ROUNDS_DOWN (!DIVIDE_ROUNDS_TO_0)

I can imagine this failing on some cross compilers, but
those compilers wouldn't be handling rounding consistently
then anyway.
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