perl and network addresses

[Jason Stephenson]

Kevin D. Clark wrote:

> Another thing to be aware of (but which hasn't come up...yet...in this
> thread) is that all of the test code that I see here uses signed
> integers for the bit operations (~ << etc.).  The C spec. specifically
> states that the results of such expressions is system dependent (and
> hence unportable).

FWIW, I also changed my test program to use unsigned integers, and got 
the same results.--The sall instruction is working as advertised on my 
Pentium III.