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From: Dale Johannesen <dalej@apple.com>
To: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Dave Korn <dk@artimi.com>,
	Dale Johannesen <dalej@apple.com>,
	"'Nathan Sidwell'" <nathan@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: warning: right shift count >= width of type
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 19:17:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7B08DB42-4238-11D9-BDCE-000A95D7CD40@apple.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16811.28586.88479.416765@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com>


On Nov 29, 2004, at 10:51 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>   I myself would want "(n >> 32)" to produce the same result as "((n 
>> >> 16)
>>>> 16)" and indeed "for (int i = 32; i > 0; i--, n >>= 1) ;", and it 
>>>> seems
>> to be generally agreed that the compiler would be at liberty to so do 
>> if it
>> wants to.
>
> But you could never depend on it.  If it only works when the shift
> count is a constant, a failure to do constant folding would break it.

Or constant propagation, or inlining, or ...

  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-29 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-29 16:30 Dave Korn
2004-11-29 16:33 ` Nathan Sidwell
2004-11-29 17:01 ` Andrew Haley
2004-11-29 17:12 ` Dale Johannesen
2004-11-29 17:14   ` Dave Korn
2004-11-29 17:26     ` Andrew Haley
2004-11-29 18:29       ` Peter Barada
2004-11-29 18:53         ` Dave Korn
2004-11-29 18:52       ` Dave Korn
2004-11-29 19:09         ` Andrew Haley
2004-11-29 19:17           ` Dale Johannesen [this message]
2004-11-29 19:54             ` Dave Korn
2004-11-29 17:38     ` Chris Jefferson
2004-11-29 18:46       ` Dave Korn
2004-11-29 19:19         ` Chris Jefferson
2004-11-29 19:46           ` Dave Korn
2004-11-29 23:49 Paul Schlie
2004-11-30  1:50 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-11-30  4:23 Paul Schlie

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