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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW - >>>= broken with short integers"
href="http://bugzilla.gdcproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171#c1">Comment # 1</a>
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title="NEW - >>>= broken with short integers"
href="http://bugzilla.gdcproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171">bug 171</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:ibuclaw@gdcproject.org" title="Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw@gdcproject.org>"> <span class="fn">Iain Buclaw</span></a>
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<pre>Problem is that in the operation:
a = a >> 1;
'a' is promoted to an unsigned integer for normal operations before the final
result being downcasted back.
So we get the following sequence.
a => -1
cast(uint) => 4294967295
a >> 1 => 2147483647
cast(short) => -1</pre>
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