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Re: C++: No Warning for passing value > 255 as parameter to a function requiring "unsigned char"
Martin Wodok <m.wodok@osb-ag.de> writes:
| Hi Gaby
| hi Eljay,
|
| thanks for your answer!
|
| > Martin Wodok <m.wodok@osb-ag.de> writes:
| > | Assigning 1000 is of course out of bounds for "unsigned char", thus the
| >
| > No, it is not. Unsigned integer types are modulo types; it is no overflow.
|
| Yes, they're modulo types, that's why this is NOT an error,
The argument was that it makes sense to issue a warning when the the
code is dubious -- not just an error. However, in this case, modulo
arithmetic for unsigned int is a characteristic propery.
Consequently, it does not make much sense to warn about it.
-- Gaby