does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance?

From	Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance?
Date	2022-01-03 14:15 -0300
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I've seen this somewhere or I wrote this some time in the past for some
reason and I can't see how this make sense any longer.  In a procedure
to read a numeric string and turn it into a number, we need to convert
each char-digit to some kind of integer:

  (uint64_t) (unsigned char) (s[pos] - '0');

But the double cast here seems odd.  I could have written this by
copying it from somewhere else.  Today, what I would write is just

  (uint64_t) (s[pos] - '0');

Am I making a mistake now?  I can't anything wrong with this.  Isn't a
char just an int?  I'm turning an int into an unsigned integer (of a
larger size).

Thank you!

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does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2022-01-03 14:15 -0300
  Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2022-01-03 17:32 +0000
    Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2022-01-15 22:09 -0300
  Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? Andrey Tarasevich <andreytarasevich@hotmail.com> - 2022-01-03 10:06 -0800
    Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2022-01-15 22:12 -0300
      Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2022-01-15 23:12 -0500
        Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2022-01-20 19:37 -0800
          Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? "james...@alumni.caltech.edu" <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2022-01-21 09:35 -0800
            Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2022-01-21 17:19 -0800
  Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-01-03 19:31 +0100
    Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2022-01-15 22:14 -0300
      Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2022-01-15 23:24 -0500
        Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2022-01-16 13:30 -0800
          Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2022-01-16 23:25 -0500
          Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2022-01-17 09:43 -0300
            Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2022-01-17 13:59 -0800
              Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2022-01-28 22:13 -0300
                Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2022-01-28 21:29 -0500
                Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2022-02-03 22:28 -0800
                Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? "james...@alumni.caltech.edu" <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2022-02-04 10:43 -0800
                Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2022-01-28 19:37 -0800
                Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2022-01-30 03:45 +0100
                Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2022-01-30 00:01 -0800
                Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-01-30 12:59 -0500
        Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2022-01-17 09:41 -0300
  Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-01-03 14:37 -0500
    Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2022-01-15 22:15 -0300
      Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2022-01-15 20:55 -0500
        Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2022-01-17 09:44 -0300
    Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-01-16 05:13 +0100
  Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2022-01-15 18:53 -0800
    Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? Meredith Montgomery <mmontgomery@levado.to> - 2022-01-17 09:46 -0300
    Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-01-29 16:57 +0100
      Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2022-01-29 09:54 -0800
        Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-01-30 13:17 +0100
          Re: does a double cast to unsigned makes sense in any circumstance? Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2022-01-30 23:53 -0800

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