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Re:Arithmetic Shifting Considered Harmful (1976) [pdf] by Thorrez on Saturday April 25, 2020 @08:32PM (#22983026)
> x / 2 resulting in the off-by-one error mentioned in the paper, if x is LLONG_MIN. LLONG_MIN / 2 = 0 in with their optimization.

Are you saying clang is leading to an off-by-one error? The code seems to behave correctly to me.

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