package com.super119;
public class NegativeShift {
public static void main(String[] args) {
byte b = -8;
/*
* Be caution:
* 1. byte will be auto promoted to int while shifting
* 2. left shift has not sign-extended
* right shift has sign-extended but it has ">>>" to remove sign-extended
* 3. negative value represented in "two complement" way
*/
// sign-extended, so we got "-4" here.
System.out.println(b + " >> 1 is: " + (b >> 1));
// we got "-16" here.
System.out.println(b + " << 1 is: " + (b << 1));
// sign-extended canceled, so we got "2147483644" here.
System.out.println(b + " >>> 1 is: " + (b >>> 1));
int i = -0x7FFFFFFF; // represents as "1000...1" in memory
// left shift has not sign-extended
System.out.println(i + " << 1 is: " + (i << 1)); // so we got a 2 here
// The reason for why left shift has not a "<<<" operator is,
// it will exceed the max value of int
}
}