bug?

[Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>]

I am expecting that when I shift right, I will always
get zeroes in from the left, but when I use data types
less than 32 bits, this is not always the case.

Example:
...
unsigned short s = 0xcc55;
printf("%x\n", (s<<8)>>8);
...
yeilds the output "cc55" where as I was expecting
"55".

I was expecting this to be equivalent to:
...
s = s << 8;
s = s >> 8;
...
in which you do explicit assignment, which does yeild
"55" as the output.

Is this part of C spec, unspecified by C, or actually
a gcc bug?

gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release) on an x86 btw.

Please CC responses, as I am not on the list.

Cheers,
Ben

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