what is this supposed to do?

[Henry Spencer]

In article <1991Apr22.225641.1122 at midway.uchicago.edu> langer at control.uchicago.edu (Steve Langer) writes:
>What is the expected output from the following program? Is it defined?
>   printf("1 << 32 = %o\n", ((unsigned) 1) << 32);

Assuming you're on a 32-bit machine, no, it is undefined.  Translation,
expect different machines to do different things, some of them unpleasant.
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