Hi,

Okay, I'm ready to tear out what's left of my hair!

I am either making a really stupid error, or there 
is a bug in the C18 compiler (PIC18F4620).  I'm attempting
to cast a variable from 8 bits to 32 bits and it appears that the 
sign is not being properly extended.  Just to really annoy 
me, I tried it in VC++ and it works correctly.  I've 
tracked the "bug" down to the following simplified code:

typedef char INT_8;
typedef long INT_32;

void main()
{
 
    INT_32 offset;
    INT_8 temp;    


    temp = -5;
    
    offset = (INT_32)temp;     //VC++ correctly reports 0xffff fffb
                                               //C18 reports 0x0000 00fb

}

Is it me or the compiler?

Thanks,

Ken
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