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

[Alexander Panek]

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

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