conversion of short to unsigned it

[Norman Diamond]

> What's the proper conversion of a short to an unsigned int?
> In otherwords should the conversion be a sign extension of the
> short treated as an unsigned int after sign extension, or should
> there be no sign extension?

(int) (unsigned) x   does not necessarily equal   (unsigned) (int) x

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