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. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/GCC-casts-short-to-int-tp24203223p24204360.html Sent from the gcc - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
