Why does bitwise AND of two short values result in an int value in Java?

Question

short permissions = 0755;
short requested = 0700;
short result = permissions & requested; 

I get a compiler error:

error possib         


        

Answer 1

I just wanted to add that you can actually avoid the cast if you use the arithmetic assignment operators. It's not faster or slower, just something that might be nice to know.

short permissions = 0755;
short requested = 0700;
short result = permissions;
result &= requested;