From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Converting doubles to ints and chars!?
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 00:48:13 -0700
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John M. Aldrich wrote:

> > Maybe its not supposed to be done this way at all but the
> > compiler does'nt complain about it!!
> 
> It may be that the compiler thinks you are declaring X in that
> statement, and therefore allocates an automatic variable.  Y would then
> be assigned the value of that uninitialized variable.  It's strange...
> and only possible in C++.  If you compiled that as C it would have
> caused a syntax error.

Not sure what the original poster could be referring to:

    double f;
    unsigned char uc;

    uc = (unsigned char f);

is a compile error in both C and C++.

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