From: utzoo!decvax!cca!MBM@MIT-XX@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: Caveat Hackor (cc generates bad code for int *= float)
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.1711
Posted: Thu Jun 10 23:13:17 1982
Received: Sat Jun 12 00:54:25 1982

From: Michael B McIlrath 
Date:  1 Jun 1982 1038-EDT
I believe the "op=" construction when used in the form
x op= y, means "convert y to type of x, and then do it".
This operates the same way in the RItchie compiler. 
In fact if you equate 3.9 to an integer you get 3, since
the rule there is "truncation towards zero".

--mike
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