On Saturday, 25 April 2026 at 10:49:35 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote:
- Promotion helps avoid accidental overflow which is more common with small integer types.I got 3 words for you: Value Range Propagation. We pay for it, so we should use it wherever possible.How would that fix the problem? And ideally in a way that doesn't break existing working code.
This is about the integer promotion rules, that people have been complaining about for years.
