Re: __divdi3 unresolved + X pointer blocks

On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, David Edelsohn wrote:

	You do not seem to have understood my reply.  I will repeat the
important sentence:

	SHIFT IS NOT THE SAME AS DIVIDE FOR SIGNED INTEGERS.

Indeed. That's why you have `logical shift right' and `arithmetic shift right'.
The former inserts zeroes, the latter inserts a copy of the MSB.

Don't know from memory whether PPC has them...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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