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From: soper@encore.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Bitshift operations
Message-ID: <1935@encore.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 12-Sep-87 17:27:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: encore.1935
Posted: Sat Sep 12 17:27:27 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 13-Sep-87 08:52:42 EDT
References: <198@bernina.UUCP>
Reply-To: soper@encore.UUCP (Pete Soper)
Organization: Encore Computer Corp, Marlboro, MA
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In article <198@bernina.UUCP> wille@ethz.UUCP (M. Wille) writes:
>The above mentioned compiler produces shift operations when powers of two
>are used as constant operands in multiplications and divisions. Depending
>on the type of the first operand, i.e. signed or unsigned, an arithmetic

It astonishes me that Wirth could fall for the idea of using shifts in place
of signed division. I ripped this out of the compiler when I ported it to
my company's system.
-- 
Pete Soper, Encore Computer Corp
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