GCC casts short to int

[Leonitis]

Andrew Haley wrote:
> 
> 
> Right, so you *must* prevent the overflow.  Why do you need the signed
> overflow anyway?  Can't you use unsigned arithmetic?
> 
> Like this:
> 
>   unsigned int c;
>   unsigned short a = 0;
>   unsigned short b = 0;
> 
> 

Thanks Andrew! That totally did the trick.

I didn't need to use signed arithmetic for my purposes, but I can see why
GCC was so stubborn about converting those short variables to integers.

The assembly code now does the two shifts that I wanted to see.

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