Large shifts (was: Bug in compilers)

[Luke Kendall]

Sigh.  Wrong again.  Yes, even in ANSI it's undefined.  My problem is
that I can hardly believe that this sort of semantic discontinuity can
exist; and that the ANSI committee chose not to fix it.

I assume it's happened because some chips (e.g. SPARC) don't internally
mask the shift operand, and you want the normal case (of a shift) to not
incur the overhead.  Sad.

(I mean, it is a pretty clean language, implicit & on arrays and functions
 aside).
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