From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Charlie Gordon" Subject: Re: Sorry for wrong question Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 12:50:21 +0200 Sender: linux-c-programming-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <001e01c4372f$48ebf3b0$ae63d103@patni.com> Return-path: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org > I am working on windows environment. Unless you belong with Microsoft, you are merely working UNDER the windows environment, and it may be that what you produce belongs TO Microsoft. The great thing about linux is that everybody is free to work ON linux, unless maybe Microsoft employees who have given up that right. Charlie. PS: back on track, a few simple trick questions for C newbies : - what is -1 ? - what is wrong with : enum BOOL { FALSE=0, TRUE=1 }; - what is the difference between : i << 2 and i * 4 - same question for : i >> 2 and i / 4