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| author | chriseth <chris@ethereum.org> | 2017-05-02 20:57:19 +0800 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2017-05-02 20:57:19 +0800 |
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Merge pull request #2172 from ethereum/docs-sar
Document how Solidity's SAR is different
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diff --git a/docs/types.rst b/docs/types.rst index 60235ad2..c868adc6 100644 --- a/docs/types.rst +++ b/docs/types.rst @@ -64,6 +64,12 @@ expression ``x << y`` is equivalent to ``x * 2**y`` and ``x >> y`` is equivalent to ``x / 2**y``. This means that shifting negative numbers sign extends. Shifting by a negative amount throws a runtime exception. +.. warning:: + The results produced by shift right of negative values of signed integer types is different from those produced + by other programming languages. In Solidity, shift right maps to division so the shifted negative values + are going to be rounded towards zero (truncated). In other programming languages the shift right of negative values + works like division with rounding down (towards negative infinity). + .. index:: address, balance, send, call, callcode, delegatecall, transfer .. _address: |