Signed word lengths and indexes

[BCS]

Hello Don,

> BCS wrote:
> 
>> Hello Don,
>> 
>>> Surprise! c == -1.
>>> 
>> No kidding!
>> 
>>> Because 1 is an int, b gets promoted to int before the shift
>>> happens.
>>> 
>> Why would it ever need to be promoted? Unless all (most?) CPUs have
>> only size_t shifts, all three shifts should never promote the LHS.
>> 
> It shouldn't NEED to. But C defined that >> and << operate that way.
> 

At leat for the >>> can we break that? C doesn't even *have* a >>> operator.

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