Would you like signs with those chars?
Would you like signs with those chars?
Posted Oct 25, 2022 7:39 UTC (Tue) by matthias (subscriber, #94967)In reply to: Would you like signs with those chars? by SLi
Parent article: Would you like signs with those chars?
In this case, there is no overflow. Subtracting 1 from 0xff is non-overflowing regardless of whether the type is signed or unsigned. If it is signed, the result is -2 (0xfe) And in both cases, the result is well within the bounds of an int. The difference is whether it gets sign-extended (signed char) or not (unsigned char).
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