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Subject: Re: how cast works?
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2024 11:23:18 +0200
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On 10/08/2024 02:11, Bart wrote:
> On 10/08/2024 00:58, Keith Thompson wrote:
> 
>> In any case, while there may be some ambiguity about whether all casts
>> specify conversions, it is unambiguous that an implicit conversion is
>> not a cast.
>>
> 
> Here are some comments from the Tiny C source code:
> 
>          /* XXX: implicit cast ? */
>          /* compute bigger type and do implicit casts */
> 
> This is from some gcc code:
> 
>       ..and some compilers cast it to int implicitly ...
> 
> Come on, everybody's at it. Unless we're trying do to a reference 
> document, then /it really doesn't matter/.
> 
> 

Do you also throw shopping trolleys into rivers, just because you see 
that other people have done so?

comp.lang.c posters, compiler writers, and even the C standards writers, 
are fallible humans - they make mistakes sometimes.  We all do.  Why not 
try to correct the mistakes, or learn from them, rather than duplicating 
and spreading them?