Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!cottrell@NBS-VMS From: cottrell@NBS-VMS Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Most Significant Bit Message-ID: <9077@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 11:30:57 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.9077 Posted: Fri Mar 8 11:30:57 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Mar-85 05:31:52 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 10 /* > ~(~(unsigned)0>>1) is not portable either i believe. That's why I posted my run-time example. The original query gave the above expression as a compile-time solution. Hopefully it WILL be the portable post-standard solution. As I said, it doesn't work on V6. Can we please end this discussion? jim cottrell@nbs */