This can still bite you. Because an aggressive compiler will probably do constant optimization. And the software guy who optimizes 1<<32 might have a differen

This can still bite you. Because an aggressive compiler will probably do constant optimization. And the software guy who optimizes 1<<32 might have a different notion of what to do than guy designing the hardware would do. For example, the SUNW compiler sometime around the year 2000. As me how I know.