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Date:      Fri, 19 Jan 2018 10:31:32 -0800
From:      Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org,  svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r328159 - head/sys/modules
Message-ID:  <CAG6CVpVSjSbOwM=ktSJAjfapVNTFeNpnfZ1tMy-2-MKu9Rsmuw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <2915608.v56yfz43Ej@ralph.baldwin.cx>
References:  <201801190434.w0J4Y6i7086677@repo.freebsd.org> <2915608.v56yfz43Ej@ralph.baldwin.cx>

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On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 9:51 AM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Friday, January 19, 2018 04:34:06 AM Conrad Meyer wrote:
>>   The logical result of a right shift >=3D the width of a type is zero, =
but our
>>   compiler decides this is a warning (and thus, error).  Just remove ccp=
(4)
>>   from i386.
>
> You would think that.  The shift instructions on x86 effectively ignore t=
he
> upper bits of the count, so a 33-bit shift on i386 ends up being a 1-bit =
shift,
> etc. IIRC.

This never becomes a shift instruction on x86 or any other arch =E2=80=94 i=
t's
a constant before it reaches machine code.



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