Subject: Re: bug#43764: Calc shift right broken

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2020 10:12:54 +0200

Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]> writes:

> A very modest reform would be to set the default word size to 64 bits,
> to keep up with the times.

That sounds like a welcome change...  or is it possible that somebody is
using calc to do 32-bit math and would be surprised by this?

But if we're changing the number of default bits, perhaps it would make
more sense to default to having no bit width restrictions?  Or would
that entail major Calc surgery?  

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