On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 9:51 AM, John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Friday, January 19, 2018 04:34:06 AM Conrad Meyer wrote:
>>   The logical result of a right shift >= the width of a type is zero, but our
>>   compiler decides this is a warning (and thus, error).  Just remove ccp(4)
>>   from i386.
>
> You would think that.  The shift instructions on x86 effectively ignore the
> upper bits of the count, so a 33-bit shift on i386 ends up being a 1-bit 
> shift,
> etc. IIRC.

This never becomes a shift instruction on x86 or any other arch — it's
a constant before it reaches machine code.
_______________________________________________
svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list
https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Reply via email to