The spec doesn't seem to explicitly mention what happens when the left operand
of a shift expression is signed and negative. [1]
But I know that D follows C's semantics for this sort of stuff, and the C
standard specifies that the result of a negative left operand is undefined
for `<<`, and implementation-defined for `>>`. [2][3]

Is D's behaviour the same as C in this regard?

[1]: https://dlang.org/spec/expression.html#shift_expressions
[2]: https://port70.net/~nsz/c/c89/c89-draft.html#3.3.7
[3]: https://port70.net/~nsz/c/c11/n1570.html#6.5.7

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 08:30:27PM +0000, Harry Gillanders via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> The spec doesn't seem to explicitly mention what happens when the left
> operand of a shift expression is signed and negative. [1]
> But I know that D follows C's semantics for this sort of stuff, and
> the C standard specifies that the result of a negative left operand is
> undefined for `<<`, and implementation-defined for `>>`. [2][3]
[...]

Yes, it's UB.  Don't do it.


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