shift left arithmetic

[Andrew Koenig]

In article <2098 at charon.cwi.nl>, aeb at cwi.nl (Andries Brouwer) writes:

> While debugging an Australian computer algebra package
> I stumbled over the following: 1<<32 produced 0, but
> int a; a=1; a<<32 produced 1. (Of course the word length
> of my machine is 32 bits.)

On a machine with 32-bit words, a program that shifts a
vlaue by 32 bits is illegal and the implementation is allowed
to do whatever it likes.
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				--Andrew Koenig
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