java bit manipulation

Question

byte x = -1;
for(int i = 0; i < 8; i++)
{
    x = (byte) (x >>> 1);
    System.out.println(\"X: \" + x);
}

As I understand it, java sto

Answer 1

I'm not sure about this. But, my guess is that

x >>> 1 

gets promoted to a int from byte, because the literal "1" is an int. Then what you are observing makes sense.