[fpc-devel] bitwise shift oddity a << b

[Martin Frb]

On 19/05/2015 13:56, Jonas Maebe wrote:
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> On x86-64, x shr 64 = x, for any value of x. On i386, x shr 32 = x, 
> for any value of x. For PowerPC (32 bit), x shr y = 0 if bit 5 of y is 
> set, otherwise it's (x shr (y mod 32)). Really, there are very good 
> reasons to treat this kind of stuff as undefined (unless you want to 
> build a language for which the speed of compiled code is irrelevant). 
> That's also why range/overflow checking exists as an option: to enable 
> you to still catch such cases if you want, but to not burden all code 
> all the time with these checks.

Ok