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TYPES CONVERSIONS
Conversion of variable of one type to variable of another type is typecasting.
mikroBasic PRO for AVR supports both implicit and explicit conversions for built-in
types.
Implicit Conversion
Compiler will provide an automatic implicit conversion in the following situations:
- statement requires an expression of particular type (according to language
definition) and we use an expression of different type,
- operator requires an operand of particular type and we use an operand of
different type,
- function requires a formal parameter of particular type and we pass it an object of
different type,
-
result does not match the declared function return type.
Promotion
When operands are of different types, implicit conversion promotes the less com-
plex to the more complex type taking the following steps:
byte/char  word
short  integer
short  longint
integer  longint
integral  float
Higher bytes of extended unsigned operand are filled with zeroes. Higher bytes of
extended signed operand are filled with bit sign (if number is negative, fill higher
bytes with one, otherwise with zeroes). For example:
dim a as byte
dim b as word
'...
a = $FF
b = a ' a is promoted to word, b becomes $00FF
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