Re: [PATCH] NTP shift_right cleanup (v. A3)

[Nick Piggin]

Ulrich Windl wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm against "signed shift right", because the reason for the macro is exaclty that 
> CPUs do a "signed" shift right. John does a "signum(arg) * right_shift(abs(arg), 
> number_of_positions)". So maybe it's the signed_unsigned_shift_right(), susr() to 
> be cryptic ;-)

I see, so that would be a divide by 2^shift?

Well, nevermind - I guess the patch is better than what was
there before.

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