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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: question about shift operator
Message-ID: <8840@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 10 Nov 88 00:52:01 GMT
References: <786@gtx.com> <192@libove.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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In article <192@libove.UUCP> root@libove.UUCP (Jay M. Libove) writes:
>Now, why is there any question as to the result?

Rewrite the example as
	int n, s;
	s = 32;
	/* ... */
	n << s;
Now tell us what machine instructions will be generated for "n << s".
Then look up the behavior of those instructions when s==32.