Re: Integral promotion.

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From: Encom Technology Sydney
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 03:42

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Re: short = short + short causing a warning.

This is all getting off the track.  Since only a warning is generated this
has very little to do with the standard.  I think the point is why does

short = short + short;

generate a warning whereas

int = int + int;

does not.  Both these statements are as prone to overflow as each other
(although in the first case it may not happen until the int resulting
from the addition is moved into the short if sizeof(int) > sizeof(short).

The warning is even sillier since on the implementation mentioned
ints and shorts are the same.

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