Simplified comments

src/core/surface/call.c

@@ -427,9 +427,8 @@ static grpc_cq_completion *allocate_completion(grpc_call *call) {
     }
     /* NB: the following integer arithmetic operation needs to be in its
      * expanded form due to the "integral promotion" performed (see section
-     * 3.2.1.1 of the C89 draft standard), which in this case upcasts the result
-     * of the bitwise OR to "unsigned". A cast to the smaller container type is
-     * then required to avoid the compiler warning */
+     * 3.2.1.1 of the C89 draft standard). A cast to the smaller container type
+     * is then required to avoid the compiler warning */
     call->allocated_completions =
         (gpr_uint8)(call->allocated_completions | (1u << i));
     gpr_mu_unlock(&call->completion_mu);
@@ -744,9 +743,8 @@ static void finish_live_ioreq_op(grpc_call *call, grpc_ioreq_op op,
   master = &call->masters[master_set];
   /* NB: the following integer arithmetic operation needs to be in its
    * expanded form due to the "integral promotion" performed (see section
-   * 3.2.1.1 of the C89 draft standard), which in this case upcasts the result
-   * of the bitwise OR to "unsigned". A cast to the smaller container type is
-   * then required to avoid the compiler warning */
+   * 3.2.1.1 of the C89 draft standard). A cast to the smaller container type
+   * is then required to avoid the compiler warning */
   master->complete_mask = (gpr_uint16)(master->complete_mask | (1u << op));
   if (!success) {
     master->success = 0;
@@ -1259,9 +1257,8 @@ static grpc_call_error start_ioreq(grpc_call *call, const grpc_ioreq *reqs,
     }
     /* NB: the following integer arithmetic operation needs to be in its
      * expanded form due to the "integral promotion" performed (see section
-     * 3.2.1.1 of the C89 draft standard), which in this case upcasts the result
-     * of the bitwise OR to "unsigned". A cast to the smaller container type is
-     * then required to avoid the compiler warning */
+     * 3.2.1.1 of the C89 draft standard). A cast to the smaller container type
+     * is then required to avoid the compiler warning */
     have_ops = (gpr_uint16)(have_ops | (1u << op));
 
     call->request_data[op] = data;

src/core/transport/chttp2/bin_encoder.c

@@ -187,9 +187,8 @@ gpr_slice grpc_chttp2_huffman_compress(gpr_slice input) {
   if (temp_length) {
     /* NB: the following integer arithmetic operation needs to be in its
      * expanded form due to the "integral promotion" performed (see section
-     * 3.2.1.1 of the C89 draft standard), which in this case upcasts the result
-     * of the bitwise OR to "unsigned". A cast to the smaller container type is
-     * then required to avoid the compiler warning */
+     * 3.2.1.1 of the C89 draft standard). A cast to the smaller container type
+     * is then required to avoid the compiler warning */
     *out++ = (gpr_uint8)((gpr_uint8)(temp << (8u - temp_length)) |
                          (gpr_uint8)(0xffu >> temp_length));
   }
@@ -272,9 +271,8 @@ gpr_slice grpc_chttp2_base64_encode_and_huffman_compress(gpr_slice input) {
   if (out.temp_length) {
     /* NB: the following integer arithmetic operation needs to be in its
      * expanded form due to the "integral promotion" performed (see section
-     * 3.2.1.1 of the C89 draft standard), which in this case upcasts the result
-     * of the bitwise OR to "unsigned". A cast to the smaller container type is
-     * then required to avoid the compiler warning */
+     * 3.2.1.1 of the C89 draft standard). A cast to the smaller container type
+     * is then required to avoid the compiler warning */
     *out.out++ = (gpr_uint8)((gpr_uint8)(out.temp << (8u - out.temp_length)) |
                              (gpr_uint8)(0xffu >> out.temp_length));
   }

tools/codegen/core/gen_hpack_tables.c

@@ -73,9 +73,8 @@ static unsigned char prefix_mask(unsigned char prefix_len) {
   for (i = 0; i < prefix_len; i++) {
     /* NB: the following integer arithmetic operation needs to be in its
      * expanded form due to the "integral promotion" performed (see section
-     * 3.2.1.1 of the C89 draft standard), which in this case upcasts the result
-     * of the bitwise OR to "unsigned". A cast to the smaller container type is
-     * then required to avoid the compiler warning */
+     * 3.2.1.1 of the C89 draft standard). A cast to the smaller container type
+     * is then required to avoid the compiler warning */
     out = (unsigned char)(out | (unsigned char)(1 << (7 - i)));
   }
   return out;
@@ -99,9 +98,8 @@ static void generate_first_byte_lut(void) {
       if ((prefix_mask(fields[j].prefix_length) & i) == fields[j].prefix) {
         /* NB: the following integer arithmetic operation needs to be in its
          * expanded form due to the "integral promotion" performed (see section
-         * 3.2.1.1 of the C89 draft standard), which in this case upcasts the
-         * result of the bitwise AND to "unsigned". A cast to the smaller
-         * container type is then required to avoid the compiler warning */
+         * 3.2.1.1 of the C89 draft standard). A cast to the smaller container
+         * type is then required to avoid the compiler warning */
         suffix = (unsigned char)(suffix_mask(fields[j].prefix_length) &
                                  (unsigned char)i);
         if (suffix == suffix_mask(fields[j].prefix_length)) {

tools/codegen/core/gen_legal_metadata_characters.c

@@ -43,9 +43,8 @@ static void legal(int x) {
   int bit = x % 8;
   /* NB: the following integer arithmetic operation needs to be in its
    * expanded form due to the "integral promotion" performed (see section
-   * 3.2.1.1 of the C89 draft standard), which in this case upcasts the result
-   * of the bitwise OR to "unsigned". A cast to the smaller container type is
-   * then required to avoid the compiler warning */
+   * 3.2.1.1 of the C89 draft standard). A cast to the smaller container type
+   * is then required to avoid the compiler warning */
   legal_bits[byte] =
       (unsigned char)((legal_bits[byte] | (unsigned char)(1 << bit)));
 }