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Date:      Wed, 15 May 2002 21:34:06 +0200
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
Message-ID:  <20020515213406.A30720@alpha.develop.ferrari.net>
In-Reply-To: <86sn4t8fzp.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org>
References:  <86sn4t8fzp.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org>

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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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