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Subject: Re: [ot] when using >>, filling with 0 or 1

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 12:40:07 10/05/02

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On October 05, 2002 at 15:34:19, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On October 05, 2002 at 15:29:03, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>Shifting negative numbers is generally not a good idea unless you have no other
>>choice and then you must be careful.
>
>Care to elaborate?
>
>I tend to write score /= 2 for example as score >>= 1 and never
>noticed anything wrong with this.

Okay, I googled and I now know this is implementation-dependent.

Apparently Intel C, MSVC and GCC on x86 handle it as expected
but I should expect to burn my fingers someday.

--
GCP



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