Promotion

if byte b= -1
ie b=11111111
when it is promoted to int what is the rule?
will it become 00000000000000000000000011111111
or
11111111111111111111111111111111
- Thanks

Originally posted by Doit:
if byte b= -1
ie b=11111111
when it is promoted to int what is the rule?
will it become 00000000000000000000000011111111
or
11111111111111111111111111111111
- Thanks

I believe a byte can be promoted to an int automatically (no cast needed)
The result will be -1 or 11111111111111111111111111111111
Promotion here should not change the value.

what would have happened if the byte value had been
01100010
and has to be promoted to int??

Fact: Whenever you 'promote' something, no information is lost.
(Take care while converting int to float and long to double, because float and double by nature are less precise than int and long resp.)
Now the answers are easy.
if b is -1 ( 11111111 ) then i will also be -1 ( ie 111....)
if b is 01100010 then i will be
00000000 00000000 00000000 01100010
Excercise: what happens if you are trying to promote char c = 0xffff to int? ( Note that char is always positive ).
HTH,
Paul.

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[This message has been edited by Paul A (edited August 28, 2000).]

*** what happens if you are trying to promote char c = 0xffff to int?
00000000 00000000 11111111 11111111?

That's correct.
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