Hi Akshay, > Could anyone pls explain to me this behavior ? I think it is best explained as GIGO. Or as per ISO 14882 4.7.2: If the destination type is unsigned, the resulting value is the least unsigned integer congruent to the source integer (modulo 2^n where n is the number of bits used to represent the unsigned type). You can see the same kind of behavior by doing: unsigned char c = 0x123456; HTH, --Eljay
