Bugs or features?

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2008-02-16 01:19:57 +0100, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:
> In the C standard, the behaviour of right shift of negative numbers
> is undefined.

It is not undefined, but implementation-defined.

> But in practice, almost every compiler defines it as rounding
> towards -oo. The one exception I am aware of is Cray's compilers for
> their vector systems. (They shift the numbers logically always,
> which is not very helpful.)

Here's another exception: :)

http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1714174&postcount=3

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