Robert Haas <[email protected]> writes:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 3:16 AM, Craig Ringer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Our implementation of << is a direct wrapper around the C operator. It
>> does not check the right-hand side's value.
>> ... On x64 intel gcc linux it does a rotation but that's
>> not AFAIK guaranteed by anything, and we should probably not be
>> relying on this or exposing it at the user level.
> I agree.
As far as I'm concerned, what those operators mean is "whatever your
compiler makes them mean". This is hardly the only place where we expose
platform-dependent behavior --- see also locale dependencies, timezones,
floating point, yadda yadda --- and I do not find it the most compelling
place to start reversing that general approach.
regards, tom lane
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