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From: ndiamond@watdaisy.UUCP (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: conversion of short to unsigned it
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Date: Mon, 18-Mar-85 22:42:35 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 18 22:42:35 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?

(int) (unsigned) x   does not necessarily equal   (unsigned) (int) x

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