Conversions/casts one more time

[stuart at bms-at.UUCP]

In article <176 at unisoft.UUCP>, wendyt at unisoft.UUCP (Wendy Thrash) writes:

> 	printf("\tc = %x, (char)uc = %x, (char)ucf() = %x\n",
> 	  c, (char)uc, (char)ucf());

	results in:

> 	c = ffffffaa, (char)uc = ffffffaa, (char)ucf() = aa

The compiler is broken and left out a cast.  The values printed should
all be the same, either as shown or 'aa' depending on whether 'char's
are signed or unsigned.

As to whether this is required by the X3J11 draft, I couldn't say.
(I hope not.)
-- 
Stuart D. Gathman	<..!seismo!dgis!bms-at!stuart>