[fpc-devel] Fix for SwapEndian

[Jonas Maebe]

On 29 Apr 2008, at 17:00, Michael Schnell wrote:

>>> I think shr is supposed to work sign-extending with signed types.
>>
>> The above statement may cause some confusion, so people who think  
>> that "shr" means "shift arithmetic right", please read the comment  
>> added tohttp://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=10545
> OOPs !?!?!?!
>
> They say: "SHR is /always/ unsigned in TP/FPC/Delphi."
>
> This would mean that the patch the OP mentioned should not be  
> necessary

No, it doesn't. The reason is explained in the comment.

> The stuff about first converting and then shifting seems quite queer  
> (unless the types left and right are different which imposes queer  
> behavior in C, too).

In Pascal, calculations are usually performed using the native integer  
type, regardless of the left and right types (there are some  
exceptions, but not many). That is not true for C.


Jonas