July 2002
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
8h 15m
English
If your machine does not have the shift right signed instruction, it may be computed using the formulas shown below. The first formula is from [GM], and the second is based on the same idea. Assuming the machine has mod 64 shifts, the first four formulas hold for 0 ≤ n ≤ 31, and the last holds for 0 ≤ n ≤ 63. The last formula holds for any n if by “holds” we mean “treats the shift amount to the same modulus as does the logical shift.”
When n is a variable, each formula requires five or six instructions on a basic RISC.

In the first two formulas, an alternative for the expression is 1 << 31 − n.
If n is ...
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