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From:	Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong DOT shen AT t-online DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: bit shifting problem
Date:	Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:27:13 +0100
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Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
> 
> Sorry for posing yet another, possibly also newbie, problem.
> In the following code I expected the values of k and n to be
> both 0, since shifting 32 bits for a 32-bit word effectively
> clears it. .........
[snip]

Apology. I have known the answer. Shifting by 32 for a 32-bit
quantity is undefined in the standard. gcc simply does nothing
in this situation, both for the left and the right shift.

M. K. Shen

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