Explain this to me in English please.
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Here is a problem that I came across in the K&R C Programming Language book. Somebody please explain to me what they are asking for in laymen''s terms. Don''t solve it, just explain what is being asked.
Write a function setbits(x,p,n,y) that returns x with the n bits that
begin at position p set to the rightmost n bits of y, leaving the other
bits unchanged.
As far as I understand it it means:
x contains a series of bits
p is a position into x
replace n bits of x, starting at p, with the n rightmost bits
of y.
For instance:
x = 01010101
p = 4
n = 4
y = 00001111
The n(4) rightmost bits of y is 1111
Replacing the 4 bits in x starting at position 4 with the 4 rightmost bits of y (1111) gives:
01011111
So x should be 0101111, and returned.
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x contains a series of bits
p is a position into x
replace n bits of x, starting at p, with the n rightmost bits
of y.
For instance:
x = 01010101
p = 4
n = 4
y = 00001111
The n(4) rightmost bits of y is 1111
Replacing the 4 bits in x starting at position 4 with the 4 rightmost bits of y (1111) gives:
01011111
So x should be 0101111, and returned.
-Neophyte
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On another note, is there a way to print and assign values to binary numbers. For example, is something like this, possible?
x = 0100101;
printf("%d", x);
I''ve tried something similar to this and i only get the integer value of x output to the screen. Any way to do this without making x an array where the elements each equal 0 or 1?
x = 0100101;
printf("%d", x);
I''ve tried something similar to this and i only get the integer value of x output to the screen. Any way to do this without making x an array where the elements each equal 0 or 1?
Because the assignment was done in octal. The only literal integers supported in C and C-like languages are decimal, octal and hexadecimal. Converting from binary to hex is fairly straight forward: 4 binary digits correspond to one hex digit, so you can probably figure it out in seconds.
Decimal assignment
x = 14;
Octal assignment
x = 016; // preceding zero, as in your case, indicates octal
Hexadecimal assignment:
x = 0x0e;
To assign the binary value 0100101 to x, convert it to hex (0x25) and assign:
x = 0x25;
printf( "%b", x );
Have fun!
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Decimal assignment
x = 14;
Octal assignment
x = 016; // preceding zero, as in your case, indicates octal
Hexadecimal assignment:
x = 0x0e;
To assign the binary value 0100101 to x, convert it to hex (0x25) and assign:
x = 0x25;
printf( "%b", x );
Have fun!
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Just in case you haven't figured it out, however, you're supposed to solve the original question using bitshifts (operator <<, operator >>) and masking (operator &, operator |).
[Edit: Typo.]
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[edited by - Oluseyi on April 19, 2002 1:02:57 PM]
[Edit: Typo.]
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[edited by - Oluseyi on April 19, 2002 1:02:57 PM]
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