Patch has been checked into GIT; commit 2774a39695b82e7b7ca9979fedba63ab0fd2ab89 . Thank you Rob for discovering both the problem AND the solution and Andrea for developing the patch. I actually tried to verify that the replacement line for the negative left shift was equivalent but it was way beyond me! On Fri, Dec 5, 2025 at 6:49 AM Andrew Randrianasulu <randrianasulu@gmail.com> wrote:

It builds locally on gcc 11.2.0 i586 ...

Reason why it was unnoticed probably because audiofile build disabled by default and probably only needed for in-tree esound build ...