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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re:  Two Birds with One Stone
Message-ID: <119@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Dec-85 07:18:18 EST
Article-I.D.: hadron.119
Posted: Wed Dec  4 07:18:18 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Dec-85 03:12:38 EST
References: <219@brl-tgr.ARPA> <6698@boring.UUCP>
Reply-To: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
Lines: 16
Keywords: software engineering, shifts, arithmetic
Summary: S a y  what you bl**dy  M e a n !

In article <6698@boring.UUCP> jack@boring.UUCP (Jack Jansen) writes:
> One problem. Does the ANSI standard specify what left-
>and right-shifts do, w.r.t. arithmatic values? And &|!^ etc?

I believe that this falls under the heading, "say what you mean."
If you  m e a n  that bits should shift left, say so; if you instead
m e a n  that you wish to multiply (resp., divide); say that, also!
Your compiler (at least, with optimisation on) should be able to do
the conversion if it speeds anything up; and future generations of
software maintenance personnel will sing your praises for doing
something in a way that is comprehensible to both man and machine.

>>Is it after midnight yet?	;-)<<
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	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}