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Arithmetic type - Casts

This message is issued whenever a composite expression which is the result of a ~ or << operation has been cast to a different essential type category.

It is a common misconception among programmers that the type in which the bitwise operation is evaluated is influenced by the cast-to type. Instead, the type of the expression is determined solely from the type of its operands after any integral promotion. Therefore, top bits which could be represented in the cast-to type may be truncated.

For example: 


/*PRQA S 1-9999 ++*/
/*PRQA S 4398 --*/

void foo (long b);

long f4398 (unsigned short a)
{
  foo ((long) (a << 1u));   /* 4398 */

  return ((long) (~a));     /* 4398 */
}

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