Lee Revell wrote:
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 13:55 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
Doesn't matter. The cycles saved for old compilers is not rational to
have obfuscated code.
Where do we draw the line with this? Is x *= 2 preferable to x <<= 2 as
well?
I guess this depends on what you logically want to do. If the problem
requires you to shift some value N bits, then you should use a shift
operation.
If what you want is to multiply a value by a certain ammount, you should
just use a multiplication.
Using a shift to perform the multiplication should be left to the
compiler IMHO.
The proof that the shift is not so clear is that even you got the shift
wrong in your own example ;)
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