Re: bitshift of int8, int16, etc?

[Søren Hauberg]

David Bateman skrev:
> Do we need to know the overflow of each and every element, or just that
> an overflow occurred? I'd thought more the second case and then just have
>
> warning ("Octave:bitshift_overflow", "on")
>
> to enable the warning if desired. The fact is that as matlab doesn't
> implement this yet, whatever we choose to do will be wrong in any case
> and need modifying in the long run. So simple is probably better..
I don't use these bit operators, so you should just ignore the rest of 
this post...
I just wanted to say that I really hate warnings. It's these annoying 
things that tell you that you results will be wrong, but they won't let 
you do anything about it. If only you could catch warnings...