From: John Beckett 

"Rich"  wrote in message news::
>    C and C++ have the same rules.  If you had an int constant anded with a
>  long value the int constant would be sign extended before the and like it is
here.

True, but luck means this is one example where C and C++ would do what you
hoped because of the extra rule that a hex constant is considered unsigned
if the constant is too big for signed, and so the constant would NOT be
sign extended.

John

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