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Re: The C Library Reference Guide

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Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> writes:

> supercat@casperkitty.com writes:
>
>> On Monday, February 6, 2017 at 11:01:48 AM UTC-6, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>> supercat writes:
[...]
>>> Maybe.  There are some real confusions in the text so maybe this detail
>>> is not a big deal, but it has always struck me as odd.  What is the
>>> strange appeal of talking about typecasting rather than conversions
>>> using a cast, or even just casting?  What makes it so odd is that when
>>> someone is typecast they are given a role for which their appearance (or
>>> some other attribute) suits them.  A typecast actor must do less
>>> "conversion" than normal to fit the role.  A cast (when properly used)
>>> often performs a conversion from a value that can't "naturally" play
>>> that role.  It's the exact opposite of the the right term.
>>
>> In the vast majority of implementations, the only casts which change
>> representation
>
> That's an unhelpful use of words.  Casts convert values.

Please excuse a quibble.  It's true that casts (and conversions)
convert values, but there is more involved.  The expressions '0'
and '(unsigned) 0' have the same value (and most likely the same
representation at the bit level), but they behave differently.

To be fair, I should add that you may have meant 'value' in the
sense of "value in a particular abstract value space", which is
pretty much the same as my comment above.

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          Re: The C Library Reference Guide raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2017-02-06 20:43 +0000
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