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michaelg7x on Oct 27, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Systemd is bad parsing

If b is uint8_t you get zero if you <<8, but the expected value if you * by (int)256; or is it late and I should keep quiet?

0xffff2 on Oct 28, 2018 [–]

The shift will automatically promote `b` to int, so the result is identical in both cases.

michaelg7x on Oct 28, 2018 | [–]

Thanks. I'm mostly paranoid about whether the ROL instruction has precedence over the OR ... ;)

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