On 26-Aug-97, Erik Warmelink wrote to Mathieu Bouchard about converting sound 
data.
 MB>>> i'd rather do: x=(x+128)/256
 EW> Thinking about it (I knew I had forgotten something ;-)), it is
 EW> also dangerous for signed values. 32767 + 128 == -32641, resulting
 EW> in -127, not really close to 127.99609375. OTOH using 32bit
I have no idea why you are adding 128 to x before dividing, but I have some
knowledge of maths and quickly figured out (as you probably did) that it
could be replaced with "x = x / 256 + 128 / 256" avoiding 16-bit integer
overflow.
Javier Kohen  [The_Crusher] http://jkohen.base.org
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