[ On Saturday, December 14, 2002 at 12:17:13 (+0100), Martin Husemann wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: bin/19381: netstat shows negative percentage
>
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 10:59:44AM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> 
> > +       totpct = (totmem < 100) ? 0 : totused/(totmem/100));
> > to avoid nasty FP arithmetic.
> 
> I keep forgetting what the consensus was on the final C 99 standard: does
> this force evaluation order? ISTR only assigning to temporaries did the
> trick, while this allows the optimizer to rearange things.

If ?: doesn't evaluate the test expression first then the language is not C

(IMVNSHO)

Besides, in the above there are no worries anyway!

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