Something IBM did right (RT division of negatives).

[Stuart Gathman]

In article <11529 at bellcore.bellcore.com>, sjs at jcricket.ctt.bellcore.com (Stan Switzer) writes:

> Anyone wishing to take up the other side of the argument must find an
> example of an actual situation where having -1/2 yield -1 is useful.

How about rounding by adding 1/2 and truncating (toward the smallest number,
not zero)?

Trunctating (-1)/2 to -1 is exactly the approach that does *not* require
checking the sign when using arithmetic shifts.  If you want logical
shifts, use unsigned operands.
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