In article <20100419021334.ga8...@britannica.bec.de>, Joerg Sonnenberger <jo...@britannica.bec.de> wrote: >On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:51:35AM +0000, Alan Barrett wrote: >> Log Message: >> Bitwise operations on signed types are well-defined if the values >> happen to be positive, and indeed the values here were guaranteed >> to be positive, but some compilers complained anyway, so convert >> the bitwise operations to arithmetic operations. > >In that case use an explicit cast to the unsigned type. What you did is >penalize the code for no good reason.
Any compiler these days knows how to do these micro-optimizations. christos
