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Shift operation by possibly wrong constant

Reports a shift operation where the second operand is a constant outside the reasonable range, for example, an integer shift operation outside the range 0..31, shifting by negative or overly large values.

Locating this inspection

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Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

ShiftOutOfRangeJS
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | JavaScript and TypeScript | Bitwise operation issues

Inspection ID: ShiftOutOfRangeJS

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection ShiftOutOfRangeJS

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Last modified: 03 December 2025