Integer promotion... what I'm missing? (It's monday...)

[Kirk McDonald]

Alexander Panek wrote:
> If you take a look at how comparison works, you'll know why this one fails.
> 
> Lets take an uint a = 16; as in your example:
> 00000000 00000000 00000000 00010000
> 
> And now a signed integer with the value -1:
> 10000000 00000000 00000000 00000001
> 

Your point still stands, but -1 is represented as:
11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two%27s_complement

> You might guess which number is bigger, when our comparison is done 
> binary (and after all, that's what the processor does) :)
> 
> Regards,
> Alex
> 
> Paolo Invernizzi wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> What I'm missing?
>>
>>     uint a = 16;
>>     int b = -1;
>>     assert( b < a ); // this fails! I was expecting that -1 < 16
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> ---
>> Paolo