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From: throopw@sheol.UUCP (Wayne Throop)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: shift right arithmetic
Summary: I can name that tune in...
Message-ID: <0924@sheol.UUCP>
Date: 9 Sep 90 20:54:44 GMT
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> From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>> tac@cs.brown.edu (Theodore A. Camus) 
>>I would like to do a portable arithmetic right shift in C.
>In a word (well, three words):  can't be done.

Well, I can phrase the answer in only TWO words:   im   possible.
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Wayne Throop <backbone>!mcnc!rti!sheol!throopw or sheol!throopw@rti.rti.org