On Dec 24, 2007 3:46 PM, johmgolden051500 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In [email protected], "John Monte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok if you type in the following
> void main ()
> {
> bit
> }
> The word bit will turn blue which indicate it is some type of data
> type.
Turn blue?
> I have one book that it shows is as bit 1 bit long and the
> comments reads it as boolean value but it does not shows any example of
> it. What I am looking to do is the following.
> unsigned char i;
> unsigned char flag; // using the varible each flag bit to indicate a
> flag
> if (flag && 1) ; when flag,0 = 1 then I will increment else i = 10
> i++;
> else
> i = 0x0a;
> I want to use each bit of flag for some type of flag in my prgram.
> When I try the above code and when flag bit 0 = 0 it will not go to the
> else statement. Is there something I am missing here. I'm a newbie with
> c code and I apperciate the help and the feed back in here.
There are no "commands" in C for handling bits, but there are bitwise operators:
& = bitwise AND
| = bitwise OR
~ = bitwise NOT
^ = bitwise XOR
<< = shift left
>> = shift right
-- Brett
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