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From: raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.bug
Subject: negated shift size not sign-extending
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Date: 1 Jan 89 10:50:17 GMT
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using gcc 1.32 vax, -O -fstrength-reduce -fcombine-regs

    int foo (long number) {
	return number >>= 8;
    }

generates:

    #NO_APP
    gcc_compiled.:
    .text
	    .align 1
    .globl _foo
    _foo:
	    .word 0x0
	    ashl $248,4(ap),r0
	    ret

The 248 should probably be -8....

-- Ken