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Re: Possible loss of precision

Date	2013-11-17 08:05 -0800
From	Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
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Subject	Re: Possible loss of precision
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On 11/17/2013 4:28 AM, Michael Jung wrote:
> Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> writes:
...
>> On the other hand, without the special narrowing rule for
>> initializers, there would be no cast-free way of initializing a byte
>> with the value 2.
>
> They could have spent a suffix "B/b" (for non-hex integer literals) as
> with "l/L".

Why non-hex? You would still need something like the current system for
hex initialization of a byte.

The would have needed to do the the same for short, [-32768, 32767], and
for numeric initializers for char, [0, 65535].

Patricia

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Re: Possible loss of precision Michael Jung <miju@golem.phantasia.org> - 2013-11-14 20:39 +0100
  Re: Possible loss of precision Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2013-11-14 15:03 -0800
    Re: Possible loss of precision Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-11-14 18:31 -0500
      Re: Possible loss of precision Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2013-11-15 00:55 +0100
      Re: Possible loss of precision Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-11-14 20:19 -0500
        Re: Possible loss of precision taqmcg@gmail.com - 2013-11-15 07:01 -0800
        Re: Possible loss of precision Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2013-11-15 21:36 +0000
    Re: Possible loss of precision Michael Jung <miju@golem.phantasia.org> - 2013-11-15 19:24 +0100
      Re: Possible loss of precision Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2013-11-15 20:48 -0800
        Re: Possible loss of precision Michael Jung <miju@golem.phantasia.org> - 2013-11-17 13:28 +0100
          Re: Possible loss of precision Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2013-11-17 08:05 -0800

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