Re: Incompatibility with long right shifts not in the info pages

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From: Nick Haines
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1993 14:05

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>     (where y is unknown). So for y>=32, one obtains a result incompatible
>     with ISO C, which specifies simply floor(x/2^y).

Whoops. I missed a sentence in the standard: "if the value of the
right operand ... is greater than ... the width ...  of the ... left
operand, the behavior is undefined." This was lurking way up the page
from the sentence describing the result in other conditions.

Nick

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