On 19 March 2015 at 21:43, Andre-Marcel Hellmund wrote: > The output of the program is: 7fffffff - 1 > > In the first instance, I was somehow expecting the value of 'val' to be -1, > so I was wondering which part of the C++ standard defines those conversion > rules and hence explains why my expectation was totally wrong. Could someone > please give me a hint? [facet.num.get.virtuals] says the value stored in val is "the most positive representable value, if the field represents a value too large positive to be represented in val. ios_base::failbit is assigned to err."
