Re: Quick check on signed promotion of bytes

On Jan 31, 6:22 pm, Eric Sosman <Eric.Sos...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
t...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I have a byte called "x". I want byte "y" to be the complement of
"x" (i.e. all the bits flipped).

Initially I wrote:

char unsigned x, y;

...

x = 72;

y = ~x;

But then I thought that the following might happen on your average
system (CHAR_BIT == 8, sizeof(int) == 4):

1) x is promoted to signed int.
2) The complement is take of this signed int.
3) This signed int is then converted to an unsigned char

That's right, under your assumptions. On "exotic" machines
where UCHAR_MAX > INT_MAX (for example, on hardware where all
of char, short, and int are 16 bits wide), then x promotes to
an unsigned int instead of to an int in step 1.

Also see vippstar's response: It's wrong.
Ah, I apologise, just something i am not sure about, char unsigned x,
y; means unsigned char x, 'plain' char y?
.

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