Hello Masters! I am trying to liberate a Java program into Perl. It does a bunch of weird bitwise operations which I'm not very familiar with, but it seems the "<<"operator (left-shift) does not appear to be acting the same way. I have this bit of Java code, which is known to work as-expected: 
public class hashTest {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
      long HIGH_BITS =  0xFFFFFFFF << 28;
      System.out.print( HIGH_BITS );
    }
}

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RESULT: -268435456

In Perl, I rendered it like this: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
   my $HIGH_BITS = 0xFFFFFFFF << 28;
   print( $HIGH_BITS );

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RESULT: 4026531840


Can anyone see any reason why my Perl would not produce equivalent results as the Java code?

Thanks!

In reply to Difference between Perl and Java for << operator? by davidfilmer

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