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type promotion -- Definition In arithmetic expressions, COHERENT promotes one signed type to another signed type by sign extension, and promotes one unsigned type to another unsigned type by zero padding. For example, char promotes to int by sign extension, whereas unsigned char promotes to unsigned int by zero padding. See Also data formats, Programming COHERENT