You can convert an int
to an unsigned int
. The conversion is valid and well-defined.
Since the value is negative, UINT_MAX + 1
is added to it so that the value is a valid unsigned quantity. (Technically, 2N is added to it, where N is the number of bits used to represent the unsigned type.)
In this case, since int
on your platform has a width of 32 bits, 62 is subtracted from 232, yielding 4,294,967,234.