Upvoted AProgrammer’s answer—those are the real goods. For those of you who are wondering why things are this way: in the dark ages before 1988, there was no such thing as a function prototype in classic “K&R” C, and the default argument promotions were instituted because (a) there were essentially “free”, as it costs no more … Read more
Update as of version 2.23 of Parameterized Trigger Plugin: With version 2.23+ behavior changed (thanks AbhijeetKamble for pointing out). Any parameter that is being passed by Predefined Parameters section of calling (build) job has to exist in the called (deploy) job. Furthermore, the restrictions of called job’s parameters apply, so if the called job’s parameter … Read more
One possible reason: for symmetry with the use of those modifiers in the formatted input functions? I know it wouldn’t be strictly necessary, but maybe there was value seen for that? Although they don’t mention the importance of symmetry for the “h” and “hh” modifiers in the C99 Rationale document, the committee does mention it … Read more
When int is promoted to unsigned in the integral promotions, negative values are also lost (which leads to such fun as 0u < -1 being true). Like most mechanisms in C (that are inherited in C++), the usual arithmetic conversions should be understood in terms of hardware operations. The makers of C were very familiar … Read more