On Sunday, 26 April 2026 at 03:09:39 UTC, Meta wrote:
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.
Can you give an example of what you think should work but doesn't?
