Bitwise shift operator on 8-byte integers

[Eljay Love-Jensen]

Hi Ankit,

 >it still diplays -1. i could not understand why on right shift the sign 
bit is not changed to 0 whats happening here?

You are right shifting a signed number.  In a 2's complement machine, the 
MSb is used to indicate a negative number; and will be replicated on right 
shift.

For details on this kind of magic bit twiddling, get the fantastic book 
Hacker's Delight by Henry S. Warren, Jr.

HTH,
--Eljay