Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Sep 2005 22:18:26 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] NTP shift_right cleanup (v. A3) |
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Ulrich Windl wrote:
> > Hi, > > I'm against "signed shift right", because the reason for the macro is exaclty that > CPUs do a "signed" shift right. John does a "signum(arg) * right_shift(abs(arg), > number_of_positions)". So maybe it's the signed_unsigned_shift_right(), susr() to > be cryptic ;-) >
I see, so that would be a divide by 2^shift?
Well, nevermind - I guess the patch is better than what was there before.
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