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Documentation of binary | and & operators #15633
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From @epaCreated by @epaThe documentation for & in perlfunc states that Binary "&" returns its operands ANDed together bit by bit. Implicit in this is that both operands are always evaluated, even if Further, can perl guarantee that on all platforms 0 & 0 == 0 0 | 0 == 0 0 ^ 0 == 0 You can imagine some funky processor where the integer 0 has a bit Perl Info
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From zefram@fysh.orgEd Avis wrote:
Should the documentation for infix * also clarify that 0*$a doesn't
Yes, that is guaranteed.
The C language standard requires that the representations of unsigned It is conceivable for a platform to use a different numeric representation -zefram |
The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open' |
Migrated from rt.perl.org#129371 (status was 'open')
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