SRLV negative shift amount in variable

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SRLV negative shift amount in variable

ChrisDeverall opened this issue 6 years ago · comments

I just want to confirm that the result of a left shift using a negative shift amount gives undefined behaviour rather than a predictable shift in the other direction.

ChrisDeverall · Answer 1 · Sat Nov 17 2018 00:55:22 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Received feedback from an overly enthusiastic peer. For all those who want to know, the least significant 5 bits of the number are used as the equivalent "shamt".