OTOH, I *never* asked for compulsory promotion, just mimicking it. (in fact, I was not asking for anything, just addressed a question) The idea is to guarantee, by the compiler, that the final result of an integral arithmetic expression is AS IF all integrals there are promoted to some widest-integral type.
And the question is exactly that: what are the reasons to favor one view over another? (that is int-C over int-FPC)
Is FPC that slow? Is C that easy? Weighting pro and cons?
