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I am sorry to bother people with silly questions, But I have no choice.

I have a statement

unsigned short a=4000, current_word;

current_word=a << 3;

Then I have another statement

unsigned long a=4000, current_word;

current_word=a << 19;

According to my knowledge they will contain the same value. Am I right?

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When shifting the bits you loose the bits that gets "pushed out". You don't rotate the bits.

Lets look at your examples (in binary):

a: 0000111110100000
a << 3: 0111110100000000
a << 19: 0000000000000000
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