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From: wirzenius@cc.helsinki.fi (Lars Wirzenius)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How come << falls through at 16 on a 32-bit integer?
Message-ID: <1991Apr14.022519.5981@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 14 Apr 91 02:25:19 GMT
References: <11004@uwm.edu>
Organization: University of Helsinki
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In article <11004@uwm.edu>, markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins) writes:
> Why am I getting 0 for output here when unsigned long's are 32 bits with the
> *    unsigned long M = 34;
> *    printf("%08x\n", M << 16);

It's because the x format specifier means the argument is of size int,
not long.  Use lx instead. 

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Lars Wirzenius    wirzenius@cc.helsinki.fi