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Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:26:45 -0700
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On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 23:38 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> > > is.  And the result of (a * 100) / b may generally be different from
> > > a * 100 / b for integers (if the division is carried out first).
> > 
> > I thought that (a * 100) / b is always equivalent to a * 100 / b.
> 
> I'm not actually sure if that's guaranteed by C standards.

It is.  left to right, same precedence.

> It surely
> wasn't some time ago (when there was no formal C standard).

c89 is 25 years ago now.

> Either way, in my opinion it's better to put the parens into the expression
> in this particular case to clearly state the intention.

I don't think so.