Shift operation by inappropriate constant

Reports shift operations where the shift value is a constant outside the reasonable range.

Integer shift operations outside the range 0..31 and long shift operations outside the range 0..63 are reported. Shifting by negative or overly large values is almost certainly a coding error.

Example:

  int shiftSize = 32;
  // Warning: shift by 32 bits is equivalent to shift by 0 bits, so there's no shift at all.
  int mask = (1 &lt;&lt; shiftSize) - 1;

Locating this inspection

By ID

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

ShiftOutOfRange

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 | Java | Bitwise operation issues

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 ShiftOutOfRange

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

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025