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From: emjej@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Right shift vs. divide
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Date: Sun, 29-Dec-85 08:49:00 EST
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And still wrong, because after all the significant bits go away, you get
-1 instead of 0, which you should get.  I guess some things have to be
rediscovered occasionally.

						James Jones

Anybody's compiler have sufficient smarts to puzzle out control flow
and turn the example given into an assignment of -3 (or is that -4? not
many computers do integer division the way we learned it back in foundations
or ring theory!) to the variable?