Re: Fixed point shift

[David Bateman]

According to John W. Eaton <address@hidden> (on 11/25/04):
> On 25-Nov-2004, David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> | I didn't create the equivalent operators/functions in the other three
> | classes. Also, the bitshift stuff is handled through a function called
> | bitshift in octave rather than with a "<<" or ">>" operator which have
> | other meanings in octave (file i/o). 
> 
> Since these are binary operators, you could overload them for
> bitshifing as well (I/O requires the left operand to be a stream
> object).

I think this is a good idea. The only thing is that if you want to
specify the mask then you need the third argument of bitshift. However,
it is a rare case that that is used....

However to make this easier the macro DO_BITSHIFT in bitfcns.cc
would need to be rewritten as a template function so that they are
available to the operators instead of just through Fbitshift as they
are now..

Cheers
David

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