Re: A89: Filling a Byte in C


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Re: A89: Filling a Byte in C




Well, it becomes 0 if you're masking the value to 8 bits...


In a message dated Mon, 15 May 2000  7:49:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time, "Jean Canazzi" <jcanazzi@cybercable.fr> writes:

<< 
> Thanks everyone.  I appreciate it very much.  Now that I know about << and
> |=, I have a little idea myself, but I don't know how fast it will be.
What
> I need to know is:  Does 1 << 8 scroll it back around to 1, or would it
give
> me 0.  Thanks,

Since << performs a shift, not a rotation, it will give 0. I don't think
rotations are possibles in C.
 >>





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