bug?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jun 18, 2001, Ingo Krabbe <ikrabbe@earthling.net> wrote:

> Hmm, I see that we can also do
> x & (~(x^x)>>n) which is really easier :-)

This is only well-defined if x's type is unsigned.  The behavior of
right-shifting negative values is undefined (or unspecified?)

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