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From: hamilton@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Turbo C bug with unsigned long inte
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Date: 22 Apr 88 01:49:00 GMT
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demelo@im4u says:
> ... To do this I wrote:
> 
> 		unsigned long variable;
> 		...
> 		variable = 1 << num_shift;
> 
> 	where :  num_shift < 32;
> 
> 	The problem is that if num_shift is higher than 14, I get
> (I suppose so) unnexpected results.

    try:
		variable = 1L << num_shift;
			    ^

	wayne hamilton
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