Performing bitwise operations in C

[bob]

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int thething(int n)
{
return nthbit(n,0) ^ nthbit(n,2) ^ nthbit(n,17);
}

[bob]

Shorter version for this particular case:

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int thething(int n) 
{ 
  return (n ^ (n>>2) ^ (n>>17))&1;
}

[Jonathan]

Somewhat on topic, Perl 5.8 is not 64-bit safe! You think you're all fine with a 64 bit number encoded as a string, then you try to do math on it and you're screwed. A friend of mine threw together a 64 bit math library using bit arrays, but it is painfully slow when trying to do real work.

Math::BigInt is a step in the right direction, but I think it's useless when you're trying to do math on hex input to produce hex output.

[quantus]

Is there documentation of this somewhere?

[Dave]

I just get annoyed that apparently these 64 bit machines can't connect to some printers/plotters.