The utility of standard's semantics for overflow

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jun 29, 2005, Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com> wrote:

>   char x = (char)((unsigned char)y + (unsigned char)z)

> is too ugly to live.

Yeah, indeed, one shouldn't assume char is signed :-) :-)

(strictly speaking, you don't, but I thought this would be funny so I
went ahead and posted it)

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