C Primer Plus®, Third Edition

Bitwise Operators

All of the following bitwise operators, except ~, are binary operators:

~ is the unary operator and produces a value with each bit of the operand inverted.

& is AND and produces a value in which each bit is set to 1 only if both corresponding bits in the two operands are 1.

| is OR and produces a value in which each bit is set to 1 if either, or both, corresponding bits of the two operands are 1.

^ is EXCLUSIVE OR and produces a value in which each bit is set to 1 only if one or the other (but not both) of the corresponding bits of the two operands is 1.

<< is left-shift and produces a value obtained by shifting the bits of the left-hand operand to the left by the number of places given by the right-hand operand. Vacated slots ...