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Old January 6th, 2003, 05:40 AM
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Right Shifting

Hai All,

Here is a some code i executed , its giving some what strange values , right shift means dividing the value by 2 . On this basis i have excuted the code.

The code follows

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
char ch = -0x7f ;
int i = ch;
printf("%d %d %d %d\n",ch,ch>>1,-127/2,i/2);
}

Out put is :

-127 -64 -63 -63

Here -127/2 and i/2 are giving -63 as a result
But ch>>1 is giving -64 as a result . How it is possible ?

Please explain me.

Suri

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-0x7f is 1111111110000001 in binary (assuming a 16 bit variable). Right shifting this by one bit gives us 1111111110000000 which translates to 64 in decimal. Now -127/2 is -63.5 actually. However, when C performs integer divisions (i.e. both numerator and denominator are integers), it always truncates the value. Hence 63.5 will be truncated to 63.

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