Why does shifting right by a negative amount not shift left?

· Users Rust Lang · Nov. 8, 2026, 8:18 a.m.
LLVM c-programming Rust Programming shift operations
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The post critiques the design of shift operations in programming languages like C, LLVM, and Rust, arguing that they complicate performance and correctness, especially when negative shifts produce inconsistent results due to handling in hardware.
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