Hi,
"Bill Rugolsky Jr." wrote:
> > Ok, it uses an assignment, but it has almost the same effect (except for
> > pointer/integer values).
>
> Wrong. A cast throws away information, making meaningful warnings impossible.
> The assignment allows the compiler to apply the usual C integral
> promotions and catch narrowing and non-value-preserving conversions,
> like unsigned int to int, or an even more common bug, unsigned int to
> long, which behaves differently depending on whether long is 32 or 64
> bits.
Do you have an example? AFAIK this can only be done for constants and
mosts constants used with min are within usual integer limits.
bye, Roman
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