Implement Arithmetic Shift Right for signed number in perl

IamAwesom3 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello monks, I am trying to implement Arithmetic Shift Right for signed number in perl. This is how it works. $Ra = "0xAAAAAAAA"; then if I perform ASR 32 times the final value should be 0xFFFFFFFF. It copies sign bit from bit 31 to bit 31 and also to bit 30 and bit 30's data to bit 29 and so on. I read it online that if I use "use integer" in same scope as the shift operand then It will perform ASR. I wrote a code like this

    my $Rm = "0xAAAAAAAA";
    use integer;
    my $Rd = hex($Rm) >> 31;
    printf "Rd = 0x%x\t Rb = 0x%x\n",$Rd, hex($Rm);
[download]

Output is

Rd = 0x1         Rb = 0xaaaaaaaa
[download]

I am expecting Rd to be 0xFFFFFFFF but it doesn't seems to be working.

Can someone please help me?

Thanks P

Comment on Implement Arithmetic Shift Right for signed number in perl Select or Download Code

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re: Implement Arithmetic Shift Right for signed number in perl by Krambambuli (Curate) on Apr 23, 2013 at 08:36 UTC
Maybe the following helps a bit clarifying what's what: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Hexdumper qw(hexdump); use integer; my $Rm = '0xAAAAAAAA'; my $Rb = hex $Rm; my $Rc = pack 'l', $Rb; my $Rd = unpack 'l', $Rc; my $Re = $Rd >> 31; my $Rx = pack 'l', $Re; print 'Rm: ', hexdump( $Rm, { suppress_warnings => 1 } ); print 'Rb: ', hexdump( $Rb, { suppress_warnings => 1 } ); print 'Rc: ', hexdump( $Rc, { suppress_warnings => 1 } ); print 'Rd: ', hexdump( $Rd, { suppress_warnings => 1 } ); print 'Re: ', hexdump( $Re, { suppress_warnings => 1 } ); print 'Rx: ', hexdump( $Rx, { suppress_warnings => 1 } ); printf "Rb = 0x%x\t Re = 0x%x\n",$Rb, $Re; [download] which displays Rm: 0x0000 : 30 78 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 00 00 00 00 00 00 : 0xAAA +AAAAA...... Rb: 0x0000 : 32 38 36 33 33 31 31 35 33 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 : 28633 +11530...... Rc: 0x0000 : AA AA AA AA 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 : ..... +........... Rd: 0x0000 : 2D 31 34 33 31 36 35 35 37 36 36 00 00 00 00 00 : -1431 +655766..... Re: 0x0000 : 2D 31 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 : -1... +........... Rx: 0x0000 : FF FF FF FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 : ..... +........... Rb = 0xaaaaaaaa Re = 0xffffffffffffffff [download] Krambambuli ---	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Implement Arithmetic Shift Right for signed number in perl by choroba (Cardinal) on Apr 22, 2013 at 23:59 UTC
What is wrong with `printf '0x%x', -0xaaaaaaaa >> 32;` [download] It gives the expected result. لսႽ† ᥲᥒ⚪⟊Ⴙᘓᖇ Ꮅᘓᖇ⎱ Ⴙᥲ𝇋ƙᘓᖇ	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Implement Arithmetic Shift Right for signed number in perl by IamAwesom3 (Initiate) on Apr 23, 2013 at 15:15 UTC
That's not the correct way, It will not be true every time, this time you knew the result. I figured out the correct way `my $Rm = 0xAAAAAAAA; my $Rd = $Rm >> 31; # any shift amount from 0 top 31 for 32 bit data. $Rd \|= 0xffffffff << (32 - 31); #it can be (32 - any shift amount) $Rd = $Rd & 0xffffffff; #mask bits more than 32 printf "Rd = 0x%x\t Rb = %x\n",$Rd, $Rm;` [download] Output `Rd = 0xffffffff Rb = 0xaaaaaaaa` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]


Your skill will accomplish what the force of many cannot
	PerlMonks