Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (work1) now available

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

On 18/01/2010 15:40, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > I agree with you on this. Arithmetic right shift is a primitive
> > operation and I couldn't live without it.
>
> Just a remind: at least we would be in good company, as ANSI C does not
> offer this operation too :)
>
>    ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (E)
>    6.5.7
>    The result of E1>>  E2 is E1 right-shifted E2 bit positions.  If E1
>    has an unsigned type or if E1 has a signed type and a nonnegative
>    value, the value of the result is the integral part of the quotient of
>    E1 / 2E2.  If E1 has a signed type and a negative value, the resulting
>    value is implementation-defined.

In the risk of shocking some people, C isn't the ultimate reference. Is it? :)
In Java (thus JavaScript) and perhaps some other languages, we have the >>> operator... 
for unsigned right shift.

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