From:	"John S. Fine" <johnfine AT erols DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Possible bit shifting bug ...
Date:	Tue, 04 Aug 1998 18:35:35 -0400
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Hooman Katirai wrote:

>                         j << 1;

> The output is only a series of '1's. No bitshifting ever took place.

  Because you didn't tell it to store the result anywhere.

  You should have used  j <<= 1;  which has the effect of
j = j << 1;
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