Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!taumet!steve
From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: `value-preserving' promotions (was IsUnsigned() function)
Message-ID: <400@taumet.com>
Date: 13 Aug 90 16:05:29 GMT
References: <1990Jul27.161339.14712@kfw.COM> <8118@ncar.ucar.edu> <6T05HF8@xds13.ferranti.com> <25994@mimsy.umd.edu>
Organization: Taumetric Corporation, San Diego
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This topic is discussed at some length, including the ruminations of
the ANSI C committee, in P. J. Plauger's column "Standard C" in the
August 1988 (vol 6, no 6) and March 1990 (vol 8, no 3) issues of
"The C Users Journal".

Two incompatible schemes were in wide use on promoting unsigned types,
and after a long battle a consensus was achieved, the losers retiring
bloody but unbowed.
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com