From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27425 invoked by alias); 23 Jun 2011 00:39:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 27416 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Jun 2011 00:39:55 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00,TW_BJ,TW_CX,TW_DC,TW_GX X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from localhost (HELO gcc.gnu.org) (127.0.0.1) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:39:32 +0000 From: "claytongdavis at gmail dot com" To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org Subject: [Bug c++/49510] New: bitshift warnings X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: new X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: gcc X-Bugzilla-Component: c++ X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: enhancement X-Bugzilla-Who: claytongdavis at gmail dot com X-Bugzilla-Status: UNCONFIRMED X-Bugzilla-Priority: P3 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: X-Bugzilla-URL: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:39:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-bugs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-bugs-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2011-06/txt/msg02034.txt.bz2 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49510 Summary: bitshift warnings Product: gcc Version: 4.5.2 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: enhancement Priority: P3 Component: c++ AssignedTo: unassigned@gcc.gnu.org ReportedBy: claytongdavis@gmail.com This is a request to improve the warnings for bitshifts where the right operand is negative or >= the size of the left operand. I am aware that this is undefined behavior, but a warning would be nice in a case like the one included below. GCC implements a cyclic bitshift instead. $ more gcc_bitshift.C #include int main() { int shift = 32; std::cout<<"0xFFFFFFFF>>32 = "<<(0xFFFFFFFF>>shift)<>(-1) = "<<(0xFFFFFFFF>>shift)<