------- Additional Comments From schlie at comcast dot net 2005-02-13 18:30 ------- (In reply to comment #1) > There has to be a reason why we want to use long int instead of the integer > type which is the same size
There's no doubt that someone may have thought so, but it's wrong; as there's no valid reason to effectively transform (int)j into a temp of any greater rank unsigned type. (as there is no valid reason to ever require an unsigned index to memory of greater rank than a pointer). Further, given that GCC knows the bounds of the variable (i.e. 0 >= j <= 19) temp should most correctly have been typed as an (unsigned char) QI mode. (which undoubtedly could only likely help subsequent optimizations to know) -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19835
