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Re: cross compiler bug ? (ia64,asm)

Fair enough. Perhaps we should document the behaviour change for other
poor souls like me...

Thanks!
Wallace

On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 21:02, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jul  3, 2003, Wallace Wadge <wwadge@hobsoft.com.mt> wrote:
> 
> > In my .S file, I have the following:
> > movl r25=(1 << 64) - 1
> 
> 1 << 64 invokes undefined behavior, since you're shifting by more than
> the width of the integer type in bits.  From then on, all bets are
> off.  The compiler might have legitimately translated the shift into a
> call to abort().
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