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Emilio Guijarro

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Emilio is a Computer Engineer currently working as software engineer in embedded systems.

Main interests are C/C++ programming, algorithmics, compilers, embedded systems, cryptography, and operating systems.

This article analyzes the most common type casting situations in C# and the compiler behaviour in them.

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