At 7:57 AM +0100 2/17/00, Aaron Ardiri wrote:
> a shift right ">>" works the way you intend if the number is
> unsigned.. however, if you have a negative number, the shifting
> works slightly different.
>
> -32 >> 1 should give you -16 right? and what does this tell
> you just by looking at it? *the* SIGN bit is maintained, and
> hence the MSB is not removed :>
I don't think you can rely on the behavior of >> on signed integers in C.
Danny
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