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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: Here is why C++ and C are bad...
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 16:32:52 +0000
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David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:

> On 30/12/15 14:28, Richard Heathfield wrote:
<snip>
>>   int i = -6;
>>   unsigned int j = 42;
>>   if(i < j)
>>   {
>>     puts("-6 is less than 42");
>>   }
<snip>
> Of course, this in itself is just a specialist case of the difference
> between "normal" mathematics and numbers in C.  Replace the first two
> lines with "int16_t i = 1000000; int16_t j = 4000000;" and you'll find
> that four million is apparently smaller than one million.

You might find that, but you also might not!  There is a conversion
which is implementation-defined (and might even raise a signal).

<snip>
-- 
Ben.