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Author tim.peters
Recipients Windson Yang, mark.dickinson, serhiy.storchaka, sir-sigurd, tim.peters
Date 2018-09-22.03:57:36
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Because the behavior of signed integer overflow isn't defined in C.  Picture a 3-bit integer type, where the maximum value of the signed integer type is 3.  3+3 has no defined result.  Cast them to the unsigned flavor of the integer type, though, and the result is defined to be 6.
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