Author: James Swafford
Date: 08:47:40 06/07/04
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On June 07, 2004 at 11:40:33, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On June 07, 2004 at 11:11:37, Heiner Marxen wrote: > >>No. I've used this kind of shifts to assert that the type "int" can contain >>a certain amount of bits. If the compiler would switch arbitrarily among >>types, I'd have a problem. C has a system of implicit casts, but it does >>not apply to this case. > >So basically it should always give 0 assuming the native type is 32 bits? He's talking about using it as a test to determine what int's native type is. If I want to know if int is bigger than 16 bits, ((1 << 16) == 0) would tell me. -- James > >-- >GCP
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