Unsigned considerations

[Henry Spencer]

>     int i;
>     unsigned long ul;
> 
>     ul = i;
> 
> How does the ANSI thing say this conversion should be done?

X3J11 (November draft) says  ul = (unsigned long)(long)i;  is how it happens.
This makes a certain amount of sense:  adjusting the size before adjusting
the signedness produces results that I would say are (a) less surprising,
and (b) more portable across variations in relative sizes of data types.
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