--- Comment #2 from zweije at xs4all dot nl 2009-12-31 11:01 ---
I beg to differ. I cannot find where the standard says that
unsigned short *always* promotes to int in rvalue contexts.
My reading in more detail is:
1. The value of y is an lvalue of type unsigned short (5.1/7).
2. 1
--- Comment #1 from foo at mailinator dot com 2009-12-29 18:02 ---
5/9 (usual arithmetic conversions) isn't relevant until after 4.5/1 (integral
promotions) has happened. Unsigned short *always* promotes to int in rvalue
contexts; then *that* int is implicitly converted to double in the
