Bug 5225 – Signed right shift operator is ridiculous

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Comment #0 by dfj1esp02 — 2010-11-16T12:32:59Z

--- short f(short a) { return a>>1; } --- Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (cast(int)a >> 1) of type int to short ---

Comment #1 by clugdbug — 2010-11-25T06:49:02Z

This is a simple range propagation bug, rather than a problem with the operator itself (unlike bug 2809).

Comment #2 by smjg — 2010-11-25T13:39:36Z

This is closely related to issue 1977.

Comment #3 by kennytm — 2011-06-12T11:07:25Z

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 3147 ***