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From: =?UTF-8?b?xLVlc3M=?= stone <j3ss.st0n3@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Bytes [Was: Re: Driving 7-Segment LEDs on Raspberry Pi]
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 10:49:53 +0000 (UTC)
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In article slrnm4ep45.fp3.avl@login.logic.tuwien.ac.at, Andreas Leitgeb
said...

> ĵess stone <j3ss.st0n3@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The problem is mainly the interaction with that and the signedness of
>> bytes. So you end up with binary 11001001 turning into
>> 10000000000000000000000001001001 [...]
> 
> [calls me a liar]

No! None of the nasty things that you have said or implied about me are 
at all true.

> The problem with propagation is mostly a cosmetic one, namely that you
> casually need some extra casts:
> 
> byte a = 1, b = 2, c; c = (byte)(a + b);

That doesn't help either.