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In article <1992Oct2.163051.26791@waggen.twuug.com> alpha@waggen.twuug.com (Joe Wright) writes:
>Casting an int to unsigned does not change the representation.

Wrong.  Casting a *positive* int to unsigned does not change the
representation.  Casting a negative int might have to, because the
results of this cast are very precisely defined but the representation
of negative integers is not.  No change of representation is needed
on two's-complement machines.  Machines which use one's-complement or
signed-magnitude representations for integers *will* have to change
the data bits in such a case.

Yes, Virginia, a cast is a *conversion*, not a "view the bits differently"
operator.
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