On 11/3/05, Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 3, 2005, at 20:49, Joshua Isom wrote: > > > I was trying to use bit shifting for division by multiples of two, but > > if the shift amount is a multiple of the int size, it seems to fail to > > shift the bits. Here's some example code demonstrating it. > > > > .sub _main @MAIN > > .local int a, b, c > > print "a\tb\tc\n" > > a = 24 > > b = 32 > > c = a >> b > > Shifting anything by >= the bits of the int isn't portable nor > specified.
Why isn't it specified? It seems to me that it should be zero. The result being zero is also portable. Right-shifting only ever makes the number smaller. Luke
