followup to Re: unbelievable "simple" question/bug?

[Jim Klavetter]

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>Are you sure they are all ints? If one of either a or b or c is really
>an UNSIGNED int, then a-b-c would be some big positive number, which
>would explain the first example. If temp is an int, then putting that
>big positive integer back in temp would do what you want, since temp 
>would then have the value -1.                                 
>==================
>Chris Volpe

Thanks to Chris and the others who e-mailed me, this was indeed the
case.  I took the original expression and added a cast to make all
types "int" and it worked as expected.  According to PROGRAMMING IN
ANSI C by Kochan, there are 6 rules for data type conversions.
Unfortunately, nowhere in those rules does the question of int vs
unsigned (int) enter.  Upon reflection, I think this is a mistake, or
at least shortcoming, of this text.  Does K&R2 explicitely mention
this?  

Also, can someone post or send the full set of conversion rules?  I
would like to know exactly what I was comparing.  Thanks again.

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Jim Klavetter
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