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ishft(-32768,-1) = 2147467264 ? [message #9362]

Thu, 19 June 1997 00:00

George McCabe
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Registered: June 1997

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Why does IDL's fix function think -32768 is a long integer?

IDL> print,ishft(-32768,-1)
2147467264
IDL> print,ishft(fix(-32768),-1)
16384

The second result is what I expected from the first call to ishft. Do I
not understand something properly?

George

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