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From: wescott@ncrcae.UUCP (Mike Wescott)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: conversion of short to unsigned it
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Date: Sun, 17-Mar-85 01:37:22 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 17 01:37:22 1985
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What's the proper conversion of a short to an unsigned int?
In otherwords should the conversion be a sign extension of the
short treated as an unsigned int after sign extension, or should
there be no sign extension?

Does K&R say anything?

How about the draft C standard?

What's your feeling?