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From: Dirk Gerrits (dirk_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-23 12:14:23


Craig Henderson wrote:
[snip]
> In this case, the conversion to unsigned char truncates
> the source data type to 8 bits and throws the error. Like you say, this is
> the required behaviour in this situation, and therefore a simple "0xff &
> (...)" is enough to be specific about the required result. I've not tested
> the optimisation of this, but I would not expect any problems.

Shouldn't that be "UCHAR_MAX & (...)"?

Dirk Gerrits


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