Hi there: On 2022‑10‑24 11:51:32 +0100, J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel wrote: > [...] I've come across one situation that I need clarity on... how > are SHL and SHR instructions handled if the shift value exceeds the word > size?
About a half year ago I raised a documentation issue regarding that: https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/documentation/-/issues/39304 Bottom line: The behavior is _undefined_. Explanation by Jonas Maebe: > Such behaviour is indeed undefined (it's not implementation-defined > because when evaluating at compile time you may get different results > compared to when it gets evaluated at run time due to architecture > peculiarities). -- Sincerely yours, Kai Burghardt
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