[Vm-dev] urgent info required on Slang's shift treatment...

[Andreas Raab]

Don't even think about it.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

Eliot Miranda wrote:
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> Hi All,
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>     I'm being bitten by Slang's treatment of bitShift: & >>.  In both 
> cases (generateBitShift:on:indent: & generateShiftRight:on:indent:) 
> Slang generates an unsigned shift by explicitly casting the shifted 
> expression to usqInt.  I can understand the benefit of having an 
> unsigned shift.  But there are times when one really needs a signed 
> shift.  Further, the Smalltalk versions of both bitShift: and >> are 
> signed shifts.
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> Dare I change e.g. generateShiftRight:on:indent: to leave the expression 
> alone and generate either a signed or an unsigned shift based on the 
> variable's declaration?  Or must I live with a maddening cCode: 
> '(signed)' inSmalltalk: [] carbuncle?
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> E.