Are the shift operators (<<, >>) arithmetic or logical in C?

According to K&R 2nd edition the results are implementation-dependent for right shifts of signed values.

Wikipedia says that C/C++ ‘usually’ implements an arithmetic shift on signed values.

Basically you need to either test your compiler or not rely on it. My VS2008 help for the current MS C++ compiler says that their compiler does an arithmetic shift.

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