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		dzaima on Jan 21, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: So you think you know C? (2016) Smaller-than-'int' types get implicitly promoted to 'int' before arithmetic. Results are indeed very funky.

ryao on Jan 21, 2024 [–]

That makes sense then. Multiplying two uint16_t can wraparound in an int, while two int16_t or smaller cannot.

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