warning: conversion to 'u8int' from 'int' may alter its value, etc

Question

So lately I've been writing stuff where I have to use a lot of uint8/uint16 and mix them with each other and integer literals. So I'm getting warnings such as:

warning: conversion to 'u16int' from 'int' may alter its value

Code:

u16int attr = attr_byte << 8;

I like compiling with lots of warnings on. I do not like getting warnings. Is there some (preferably clean) way to fix this?

Answer 1

You can always cast:

u16int attr = (u16int)(attr_byte << 8);

I.e. you tell the compiler you know what you are doing.