Re: Promotion of integral types

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From: Frank Adams
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 1986 23:30

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In article <271@myrias.UUCP> cmt@myrias.UUCP writes:
>The ANSI Draft (1986.07.09 version) says
>very clearly that unsigned char and unsigned short are promoted to int,
>since the values can all be represented in an int (assuming sizeof(int)
>is greater than sizeof(short), which is usually true).

Usually isn't good enough.  If this is what the ANSI Draft says, it should
be fixed.

Frank Adams                           ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108

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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
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Subject: Re: Promotion of integral types
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Date: Sun, 5-Oct-86 19:30:17 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct  5 19:30:17 1986
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