c/10319: shift right bug

[Falk Hueffner]

The following reply was made to PR c/10319; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>
To: jens.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: c/10319: shift right bug
Date: 06 Apr 2003 17:50:06 +0200

 jens.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de writes:
 
 > >Description:
 > uint a = 16; uint w = 255;
 > printf("%d",a >> w );
 > 
 > a>>w is NOT NULL on x86 architecture (p3,athlon, duron)
 
 Not a bug. Shift count >= width of type is undefined. It would be nice
 to warn here, though, as we do for 16 >> 255.
 
 -- 
 	Falk