in reply to Beautiful code I wrote ;-)

Doesn't C have an obligatory warning for this?

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Re^2: Beautiful code I wrote ;-)
by massa (Hermit) on Jul 15, 2008 at 15:01 UTC
    NO.
    even with -Wall -pedantic, gcc does not complain. And there would be no reason to. 1 << a >> 1 is very much a well-formed C expresion, meaning "shift left the int with value '1' by 'a' bits; shift right the result by one bit".
    []s, HTH, Massa
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      Gcc indeed doesn't seem to complain, however, there was a reason why I remembered there was a warning, and it's a different compiler. Borland C 3.1 has such a warning.

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