[LLVMdev] Shifting by too many bits

[Chris Lattner]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Jon Sargeant wrote:
> The documentation for SHL, LSHR, and ASHR is unclear.  What is the
> result of shifting by the number of bits in the left operand.  For example,
>
> <result> = shl i32 1, 32
> <result> = ashr i32 1, 32
> <result> = lshr i32 1, 32

the result is undefined.  These shift operators could return anything.

-Chris

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