"Rob Thorpe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > No it doesn't. Casting reinterprets a value of one type as a value of >> >> > another type. >> >> > There is a difference. If I cast an unsigned integer 2000000000 to a >> >> > signed integer in C on the machine I'm using then the result I will get >> >> > will not make any sense. >> >> >> >> Which result are you getting? What does it mean to "make sense"? >> > >> > Well the right one actually, bad example. >> > >> > But, if I cast an unsigned int 2500000000 to signed I get -1794967296. >> >> So, why do you think this "does not make sense"? > > Well, it makes sense in terms of the C spec certainly. > It does not make sense in that it does not emit an error.
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