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   Anton Ertl to Krishna Myneni   
   double-cell shifts (was: D! and D@)   
   24 Mar 24 07:37:40   
   
   From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   Krishna Myneni  writes:   
   >On a possibly related note, standard Forth has D2* and D2/ but not   
   >DLSHIFT and DRSHIFT. These are double number, non-arithmetic, left shift   
   >and right shift words with a specified number of bits to shift.   
      
   Gforth has DLSHIFT, DRSHIFT, and DARSHIFT (the latter works on signed   
   doubles).  They are used exactly 0 times in the Gforth image.  There   
   are uses in the cross-compiler (for building 64-bit images on 32-bit   
   machines) and in MINOS2.   
      
   - anton   
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