At 2:03 AM +0100 1/21/02, Aaron Ardiri wrote:
> > > > const UInt32 test_2_18 = (2<<18);
>
> ... = 2L << 18;
>
> but, since it is a constant, why not just hardcode it without the shift?
Because sometimes it's easier to see and understand what's going on,
rather than having just:
const UInt32 test_2_18 = 0x00080000;
Besides, we may be just seeing a pared down example. The original
code may have been:
UInt32 fred = 2 << some_shift_count;
where "some_shift_count" happened to be greater than 15.
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