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Yes, this is such a case. However, implementing this in a future encoder/decoder would break compatibility with most (likely all) existing decoders, and only in some very, very rare cases where the material is such that the encoder chooses to use negative shifts, which makes it even harder to troubleshoot. Furthermore, as this can only be used in very rare cases, there is no benefit from allowing