Re: how cast works?

On 10/08/2024 02:11, Bart wrote:

On 10/08/2024 00:58, Keith Thompson wrote:
 

In any case, while there may be some ambiguity about whether all casts
specify conversions, it is unambiguous that an implicit conversion is
not a cast.
>

 Here are some comments from the Tiny C source code:
          /* XXX: implicit cast ? */
         /* compute bigger type and do implicit casts */
 This is from some gcc code:
       ..and some compilers cast it to int implicitly ...
 Come on, everybody's at it. Unless we're trying do to a reference document, then /it really doesn't matter/.
 

Do you also throw shopping trolleys into rivers, just because you see that other people have done so?
comp.lang.c posters, compiler writers, and even the C standards writers, are fallible humans - they make mistakes sometimes.  We all do.  Why not try to correct the mistakes, or learn from them, rather than duplicating and spreading them?