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Re: bug?
- To: Ben Kohlen <bckohlen at yahoo dot com>
- Subject: Re: bug?
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 15 Jun 2001 22:59:03 -0300
- Cc: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <20010615225730.76865.qmail@web11001.mail.yahoo.com>
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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