What does the C standard say about bitshifting more bits than the width of type?
bit-shift, c
Solution
From my WG12/N1124 draft (not the standard, but Good Enough For Me), there's the following block in 6.5.7 Bitwise shift operators:
If the value of the right operand is negative or is greater than or equal to the width of the promoted left operand, the behavior is undefined.
So, undefined. Be careful.
Problem
Consider the following code: ``` int i = 3 << 65; ``` I would expect that the result is `i==0`, however the actual result is `i==6`. With some testing I found that with the following code: ``` int i, s; int a = i << s; int b = i << (s & 31); ``` the values of `a` and `b` are always the same. Does the C standard say anything about shifting more than 32 bits (the width of type `int`) or is this unspecified behavior?