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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int'
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Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:

> On 2026-05-12 20:09, Dan Cross wrote:
>
>> [...] one of the major motivating
>> factors for using unsigned arithmetic in practice is to have the
>> full bit-range of the type available.  [...]
>
> Hmm.. - I'm using 'unsigned' typically to express the domain of the
> application values (not to "wrest" some more values out of a type).

I concur.  I use unsigned types a lot more often than signed types,
and needing an extra one bit of range is almost never a factor.