Why the output for "a" is -80?

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Published on 2010-03-22T11:05:53Z Indexed on 2010/03/22 11:11 UTC
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#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
#define ABC 20
#define XYZ 10
#define XXX ABC - XYZ

void main()
{
    int     a;

    a = XXX * 10;

    printf("\n %d \n", a);

    getch();
}

I thought the output should be 100 but when i saw the result i found o/p as -80. when i put bracket as #define XXX (ABC-XYZ) then i get output as 100 but without bracket i get o/p as -80.

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