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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
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Posted: Sun Jul 22 21:07:23 1984
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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
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