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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Need help with error correction.
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Date: 7 Feb 91 21:13:46 GMT
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>Some machines may need to change the "%32C*" to "%31C*" until 4.0 comes
>out, since some machines think that 1 << 32 == 1, GRRR!  I won't mention
>any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble...  :-)

Or PCs and clones or other 386-based machines, or 3B{2,5,15}s, or
perhaps DECstations, or MIPS boxes, or MIPS-based SGI boxes, or.... 
SPARC is hardly unique in that regard; maybe MIPS's compiler generates
instructions to compensate for the fact that the shift count is taken
modulo 32, but other compilers don't.