what is this supposed to do?

[John F Carr]

In article <ENAG.91Apr24181029 at maud.ifi.uio.no>
	enag at ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) writes:
>(3) Some machines do something else when the shift operand is larger
>    than the applicable word-size, such as laugh at you.

Which machines and compilers make (1 << wordsize) neither 1 nor 0?

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    John Carr (jfc at athena.mit.edu)