In article <20120322100642.ga1...@apb-laptoy.apb.alt.za>, Alan Barrett <a...@cequrux.com> wrote:
>I don't know what "balancing" means, but this seems bogus to >me. The type of the right hand operand of the << operator is >irrelevant; only its value is important. (See sectiopn 6.5.7 of >the C99 standard.) Balancing means that in K&R c the type of the result of the shift operation was the wider of the types of the two shift operands. christos