Re: Integer Promotions

Philip Potter said:

Richard Heathfield wrote:
Fred said:

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(void) (u=10); /* set u to 10 */

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(4. And as usual we discard the value of the assigment expression)

That isn't actually "as usual". Hardly anyone does that, as it's utterly
pointless.

No, I disagree. It's quite sensible to discard the value of the
assignment expression, because the assignment itself was the purpose of
the statement.

Casting the assignment to void, however, is pointless. Luckily, it isn't
necessary to do this in order to discard the value.

Ach! Out-pedanted again! (And you are, of course, perfectly correct.)

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