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

From: Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 17:29:58 +0200

> What about a narrower change: clip the value after shifting right instead of before?

On the other hand it would introduce an inconsistency with arithmetic right shift which ignores bits above the word size.
Thus I will do nothing at all unless Vincent or anyone else speaks up.

However, this bug has already been a success since inspecting the code revealed a bug in the arithmetic right shift that has now been fixed, and there is now a fairly comprehensive test for all binary shift and rotate operations which should make future changes a lot safer and easier.