shift operators?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <7xr8p26mlp.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com>,
Paul Rubin  <phr-n2002a at nightsong.com> wrote:
>Andrew Koenig <ark at research.att.com> writes:
>>
>> Is it just backward compatibility that keeps 1<<40 from yielding
>> 1099511627776L as well?
>
>I think people do shift operations expecting 32-bit arithmetic.

Except when they expect 64-bit arithmetic.
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