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From: sl14@crux1.cit.cornell.edu (S. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c,comp.lang.c.moderated
Subject: Re: Integral promotion.
Date: 21 Feb 1996 18:56:42 -0600
Organization: Nekomi Institute of Technology
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In article <4gfgfp$3k8@solutions.solon.com>,
Tanmoy Bhattacharya <tanmoy@qcd.Lanl.GOV> wrote:
>In article <4gf99c$1fp@solutions.solon.com> sl14@crux3.cit.cornell.edu
>(S. Lee) writes:
[lossy compression]
>Furthermore, what x1 is promoted to does not depend on the _value_ of
>x1, but the _type_ of x1. If all values that the type can hold can fit
>into an int, it becomes an int: otherwise it becomes an unsigned
>int.
Yes, I was confused by this statement. I thought it referred to the
value.
Your message clears it up for me. Thanks.
Rgds
sl14@cornell.edu
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