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From: Robert Drehmel <robert@ferrari-electronic.de>
To: Akinori MUSHA <knu@iDaemons.org>
Cc: audit@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: moused(8): char signed-ness problem with gcc 3.1
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On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 02:42:34AM +0900, Akinori MUSHA wrote:
> I observed gcc 2.95.4 and gcc 3.1 interpret (or maybe optimize) the
> following code differently (CFLAGS=-O):
> 
> int main(void)
> {
>   unsigned char i = 127;
>   printf("%d\n", ((char)(i << 1)) / 2);
>   return 0;
> }

I think GCC 3.1 does a logical right shift by one to
optimize the division by two instead of an arithmetic
right shift.

ciao,
-robert

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