SarSmallint

16-bit Shift Arithmetic Right

Declaration

Source position: systemh.inc line 1129

  function SarSmallint(const AValue: SmallInt; const Shift: Byte)
                       : SmallInt;

Description

SarSmallint performs an arithmetic right shift for Shift positions on an 16-bit integer AValue and returns the result. Shift is optional, and is 1 by default. The difference with the regular Shr shift operation is that the leftmost bit is preserved during the shift operation.

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