[Gambas-user] Maybe (still) a bug in bit manipulation functions

[Benoît Minisini]

> Benoît Minisini ha scritto:
> >> It seems that there are bugs in the "Ror" function too.
> >> Using the same number, 197 (11000101), if I write ROR(197,3) I get
> >> -1610612712 (
> >> 1111111111111111111111111111111110100000000000000000000000011000)
> >> instead of 10111000 (184).
> >
> > 197 is not a Byte, it is an Integer. If you want a Byte, you have to do
> > Shl(CByte(197), 3).
> >
> > Regards,
>
> Sorry.
> I was thinking that the function would find the type of the data by itself.

How could it know that 197 is a Byte, and not a Short, or an Integer, or a 
Float... If nothing is specified, the compiler assumes an Integer constant, or 
a Long if the number is too big, or a Float if it cannot be a Long.

Regards,

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Benoît