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I do not understand of course cout

2026-11-02 21:00:07.595319+01 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

I do not understand, of course cout shifted left by "test" is less than endl, why is my compiler complaining?

(In non-typo news, I'm clearly doing something wrong in porting from pcre to pcre2. Sigh.)

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#Comment Re: made: 2026-11-02 22:21:56.691798+01 by: spc476 [edit history]

Could it be that cout is a signed integer? C/C++ considers that undefined behavior (because of course it is---everything is undefined behavior in C/C++).

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