Hi,
I was wondering why when "double" is assigned into a "short int" in cygwin
1.7, it doesn't wrap around correctly, eg:
main ()
{
short int x;
int y = -63757;
double y2 = -63757;
x = y; // wraps around correctly going from int to short int
printf("%d (should be 1779)\n",x);
x = y2; // but just truncates when going from double to short int
printf("%d (THIS DOES NOT WRAP AROUND CORRECTLY, should be 1779)\n",x);
}
The output is this:
1779 (should be 1779)
-32768 (THIS DOES NOT WRAP AROUND CORRECTLY, should be 1779)
Instead of wrapping around for the short int, it just truncates it at -32768
which is not the behavior I was expecting. It doesn't work like this either on
linux or solaris operating system. Also, when assigning a double into an int,
it will just truncates and not wrap around. Is this a bug and if so, is there
a newer version of Cygwin that fixes this bug?
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