Thread: What is narrowing down?

A compile warning is "narrowing down". Is this what it means? I.e., having int as return type whereas passed are shorts. Like so:

Code:

int foo(short a, short b)
{
    some code
}

A narrowing conversion is the inverse of your example, storing a larger type (e.g. an int) in a smaller one (e.g. a short). Since the smaller type cannot represent the entire possible range of values of the larger type, data could be discarded in the conversion.

Originally Posted by Guest

A narrowing conversion is the inverse of your example, storing a larger type (e.g. an int) in a smaller one (e.g. a short). Since the smaller type cannot represent the entire possible range of values of the larger type, data could be discarded in the conversion.

Thank you. Don't understand why the compiler came up with that warning then, because that was the situation.

Originally Posted by zach

Thank you. Don't understand why the compiler came up with that warning then, because that was the situation.

We would need to see the actual code that caused the warning. Calling function, and the function called.

Originally Posted by rstanley

We would need to see the actual code that caused the warning. Calling function, and the function called.

Yes, I understand. Thank you. I need to do more searching myself before I do that. Hence the query I have just now placed.

Originally Posted by zach

Yes, I understand. Thank you. I need to do more searching myself before I do that. Hence the query I have just now placed.

This thread was closed quite some time ago. Please don't resurrect old threads

Originally Posted by Hodor

This thread was closed quite some time ago. Please don't resurrect old threads

I wasn't aware that I was doing that. I don't like wasting my time in the way you imply. What is more, I had already retracted my query before you responded.