On 2007-03-24, Hardy Griech <[email protected]> wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2007-03-23, Ralf Hildebrandt <[email protected]> wrote:
>:
>>> This will result in a 32x32 Bit Multiplication with the result
>>> cropped to 32 Bits.
>> 
>> Which is identical to a 16x16 multiply with a 32 bit result.
>:
>
> Hmm, 1*70000 will result in 70000 in one case and in 4464 in the other 
> one.  Or did I miss the point?

The two operand variables were 16 bits wide.  It's not possible
to have a value of 70000 in a 16 bit variable.

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