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bit shift wrong on maximal right shift |
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Fri, 13 Nov 2015 10:22:03 +0000 |
With Guile 2.0.11:
scheme@(guile-user)> (ash 123 (ash -1 63))
$1 = 123
Correct result would of course be zero. Problem only occurs for
exactly this shift distance: one bit less produces the right answer.
Problem also occurs on Guile 1.8.8. Looking at the implementation,
the problem is attributable to the negation of the shift distance,
which in twos-complement fails to produce the expected positive result.
Note the resemblance to bug #14864, fixed in 2.0.10. This bug is of
very similar form, but is distinct. The test cases of #14864 pass for
me on the 2.0.11 that shows the problem with a 2^63 bit shift. My bug
does occur with the rnrs bitwise-arithmetic-shift-right, which was used
in #14864, as well as with ash.
-zefram
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Re: bug#21901: bit shift wrong on maximal right shift |
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Sun, 14 Oct 2018 05:40:51 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Zefram <address@hidden> writes:
> With Guile 2.0.11:
>
> scheme@(guile-user)> (ash 123 (ash -1 63))
> $1 = 123
>
> Correct result would of course be zero. Problem only occurs for
> exactly this shift distance: one bit less produces the right answer.
Nice catch!
It's finally fixed in commit 1990aa916382d0afcebd5315a6d6f555949ff654 on
the stable-2.2 branch. The fix will be in Guile 2.2.5.
Thanks for the report.
Mark
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