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mickle YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 4	shift right documentation wrong Jul 4th, 2009, 12:53am   The bitwise right shift function is not documented properly, as 0x80000000 >> 2 returns 0xE0000000 instead of 0x20000000, as it stupidly extends the sign bit. This will cause lots of problems for people trying to extract bit fields.   After much searching around I found the correct function for a right shift is actually >>>

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: shift right documentation wrong Reply #1 - Jul 4th, 2009, 1:06am   It is not stupidly, it is by design (Java uses signed integers) and tradition from C (mm, Microsoft says it is implementation dependent, which is worse!). Usually, when you do bit field operations, you mask the bit you want (at the end!). But well, >>> is useful, indeed.