Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!jfc From: jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: what is this supposed to do? Message-ID: <1991Apr25.153729.2360@athena.mit.edu> Date: 25 Apr 91 15:37:29 GMT References: <1991Apr22.225641.1122@midway.uchicago.edu> <1991Apr23.003314.5194@zoo.toronto.edu> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 9 In article enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) writes: >(3) Some machines do something else when the shift operand is larger > than the applicable word-size, such as laugh at you. Which machines and compilers make (1 << wordsize) neither 1 nor 0? -- John Carr (jfc@athena.mit.edu)