Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libarch/alpha

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20120322100642.GA1381%apb-laptoy.apb.alt.za@localhost>,
Alan Barrett  <apb%cequrux.com@localhost> wrote:

>I don't know what "balancing" means, but this seems bogus to 
>me.  The type of the right hand operand of the << operator is 
>irrelevant; only its value is important.  (See sectiopn 6.5.7 of 
>the C99 standard.)

Balancing means that in K&R c the type of the result of the shift
operation was the wider of the types of the two shift operands.

christos