[Semibug] Need Help with C language

[Jonathan Drews]

I found the answer myself in Kernighan and Ritchie "The C Programming Language", 
page 50:

expr1  op= expr2 is equivalent to expr1 = expr1 op expr2 where op is any of the 
following:  + - * / % << >> & ^ |. This also holds true for ksh93. Namely in ksh93
i = ( i << 1 ) is the same as i <<=  1.

On Sun, Oct 17, 2021, at 16:23, Jonathan Drews wrote:
> I think I understand what is going on. Just as i = i + 1  can be written as
> i += 1 so also can i = ( i << 1 ) be written as i <<=  1. Am I understanding that correctly?
> 
> On Sun, Oct 17, 2021, at 09:47, Job Snijders wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 09:43:40AM -0600, Jonathan Drews wrote:
>> > I know that it << 1 is a bitwise shift operation. What does it <<= 1 mean?
>> 
>> This is a 'bitwise assignment operator'.
>> 
>> The string '<<=' means "left shift assignment"
>> 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitwise_operations_in_C
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> 
>> Job
>> 
> 
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