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Article #3519Re: Integral promotion.
From: S. Lee
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 00:56
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 00:56
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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 Witty .sig under construction.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!solon.com!not-for-mail 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 Sender: clc@solutions.solon.com Approved: clc@solutions.solon.com Message-ID: <4ggf0a$8qi@solutions.solon.com> References: <4fstj7$2l6@solutions.solon.com> <4g55fl$avl@solutions.solon.com> <4gf99c$1fp@solutions.solon.com> <4gfgfp$3k8@solutions.solon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: solutions.solon.com