"Run-Time Check Failure #1 - A cast to a smaller data type has caused a
loss of data. If this was intentional, you should mask the source of
the cast with the appropriate bitmask.
For example:
char c = (i & 0xFF);
Changing the code in this way will not affect the quality of the
resulting optimized code."
This is because only 'val' is cast to unsigned char, so the "& 0xff" has
no effect.