Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!PALLAS@SU-SCORE.ARPA From: PALLAS@SU-SCORE.ARPA Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: sign extension Message-ID: <308@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Sun, 22-Jul-84 21:07:23 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.308 Posted: Sun Jul 22 21:07:23 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Jul-84 19:45:06 EDT Lines: 11 From: "Joseph I. Pallas"Does anyone know if the ANSI standard will answer the burning question "Should signed values be sign-extended when cast into unsigned values?" PCC's insistence on doing this has caused more than a few bugs, although it is arguably correct, if frequently surprising. joe -------