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Re: how cast works?

From Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: how cast works?
Date 2024-08-11 17:07 -0700
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Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:

> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
>
>> On 09/08/2024 01:14, Keith Thompson wrote:
>>
>>> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> A _Bool is always either 0 or 1.  The conversion is whatever the
>>>> compiler needs to give an int of value 0 or 1.
>>>
>>> The value of a _Bool object is always either 0 or 1 *unless* the
>>> program does something weird.
>>
>> True.  But attempting to use a _Bool object (as a _Bool) that does not
>> contain either 0 or 1 is going to be undefined behaviour (at least it
>> was on the platform where I saw this happen as a code bug).
>
> It depends on whether representations with non-zero padding bits are
> treated as trap representations (non-value representations in C23) or
> not.

In C99 and C11, iirc, the width of _Bool may be any value between
1 and CHAR_BIT.  If the width of _Bool is greater than 1, a _Bool
may have a well-defined value that is neither 0 or 1.  My guess is
most implementations define the width of _Bool as 1, but they don't
have to (again, iirc, in C99 and C11).

>>> It doesn't specify whether setting the padding bits to 1 results in a
>>> non-value representation.
>>
>> That's probably an implementation-defined issue, is it not?
>
> I'm not sure whether it's implementation-defined or unspecified.
> I don't see any mention of trap/non-value representations in Annex J.
>
> [...]

6.2.6.1 p 2;

J.3.13 p 1, third subpoint.

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