------- Additional Comments From schlie at comcast dot net 2005-02-20 06:50 ------- (In reply to comment #8) > - nor does it seem to make sence in any circumstance to referance a wider > logical value than may be stored in a register or memory, without presuming > it's higher-order bits are of some known value (unless it's known that they're > logical value were to be effectivly replaced by the operation without regard > to > it's initial value)?
... or known not affect the operation (as would be typical of a shift count likely never requiring more than a QI mode operand, although paradoxically a wider operand may be formally required.) (it would seem) -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5169
