http://kerryosborne.oracle-guy.com/2008/11/oracle-bitand-function-bitwise-and/ Just another Oracle blog Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:28:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://kerryosborne.oracle-guy.com/2008/11/oracle-bitand-function-bitwise-and/#comment-6084 Mike Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:30:37 +0000 http://kerryosborne.oracle-guy.com/?p=632#comment-6084 It's a shame that there isn't more binary support built into modern languages. For instance, I use PHP a lot and to do a right shift you have to mask the result, because values over 0x7FFFFFFF are negative, and PHP will fill those right shifted values from the left with ones. (In other words, there are no leading zeros). It’s a shame that there isn’t more binary support built into modern languages. For instance, I use PHP a lot and to do a right shift you have to mask the result, because values over 0×7FFFFFFF are negative, and PHP will fill those right shifted values from the left with ones. (In other words, there are no leading zeros).

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