On Monday 08 August 2011 01:42:37 Dmitry Olshansky wrote: > > You have to deal with integer promotions and all that when doing > > arithmetic, because arithmetic needs to be done with a like number of > > bits on both sides of the operation. But with shifting, all your doing > > is asking it to shift some number of bits. The type which holds the > > number of bits shouldn't really matter. I wouldn't expect _any_ integer > > promotions to occur in a shift expression. If you want to affect what's > > being shifted, then cast what's being shifted. > > That's right... Somehow it didn't occur to me till the last moment that > bit shift is asymmetric in nature so it really shouldn't do any promotions. > Sorry for the noise.
Yeah, well. Similar stuff happens to us all upon occasion. The real problem is when it happens frequently - Jonathan M Davis
