------- Comment #7 from rearnsha at gcc dot gnu dot org 2007-01-26 16:46 ------- (In reply to comment #6) > OK. I see now. This seems hard to fix, since it is exposing the current > implementation of a conversion to bool. >
No, it's not the 'current implementation', its the way the C and C++ standards say this has to happen. When arithmetic operators are applied to sub-int sized operands they are first converted to int (or unsigned int if they can't be represented in int -- which is only the case when you have a machine where sizeof(unsigned short) == sizeof(unsigned int), or something similar). -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8715
