signed/unsigned right shift

[Andreas Schwab]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

> Christian Groessler <cpg@aladdin.de> writes:
>
>> But sentence 3 says "The integer promotions preserve value including
>> sign."
>>
>> So shouldn't the conversion be "unsigned short" to "unsigned int"?
>
> No, it just says that the _value_ is preserved.  It doesn't say anything
> about the type.  That's one of the key difference between K&R C and ISO
> C: type preservation vs. value preservation.

s/type preservation/unsigned preservation/

Andreas.

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