Re: shifts on 64bit ints

On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Franz Sirl wrote:

Oh no!! It's even worse! The kernel implementation of ashldi3, ashrdi3 and
lshrdi3 seems broken, see this code in arch/ppc/kernel/misc.S:

The brokenness of those implementations has been noted by Gabriel a long
time ago, and I believe he even sent a fix to this list once.  For some
unknown reasons, it has largely been ignored.  I think I can dig out his
patch if I try hard though.


Takashi Oe


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