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Re: bug?


On Jun 15, 2001, Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I am expecting that when I shift right, I will always
> get zeroes in from the left, but when I use data types
> less than 32 bits, this is not always the case.

That's because the shift-count is int, so it causes the other argument
to be promoted to int too.

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