Re: [avr-gcc-list] Multiply is broken on Mega128

[Joerg Wunsch]

"Larry Barello" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Or was the compiler promoting the char to an int, which overflowed,
> before promoting to a long?

I think so.  AFAICT, chars are first promoted to int, then everything
is promoted to the type of the expression.

In programs for large machines, you normally don't observe this
behaviour frequently because you wouldn't use "char" in the first
place (doesn't save you anything unless you've got huge arrays of it).

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