It was thus said that the Great Roberto Ierusalimschy once stated:
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lstrlib.c, line 1142. Change:
buff[islittle ? i : size - 1 - i] = (n & MC);
To:
buff[islittle ? i : size - 1 - i] = (char)(n & MC);
Explanation: Prevents compiler warning about possible loss of data.
This compiler seems quite dumb :-) How can (n & 0xFF) loose data??
Being charitable [1], *technically* you are potentially losing
information---values 128 to 255 may become -128 to -1, if chars are signed
[2].
-spc (Or it could be an utterly stupid compiler)
[1] Like Microsoft needs any charity
[2] C standard leaves the signness [3] of a bare 'char' declaration up
to the implementation---it can be either signed or unsigned.
[3] Is that even a word?
