in reply to Difference between Perl and Java for << operator?
$ perl -le'my $HIGH_BITS = 0xFFFFFFFF << 28; print $HIGH_BITS' 1152921504338411520 $ perl -le'my $HIGH_BITS = unpack "l", pack "l", 0xFFFFFFFF << 28; pri +nt $HIGH_BITS; ' -268435456 [download]