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C++ Primer Plus, Fourth Edition
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C++ Primer Plus, Fourth Edition

by Stephen Prata
November 2001
Beginner content levelBeginner
1128 pages
29h 12m
English
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Bitwise Operators

The bitwise operators operate upon the bits of integer values. For example, the left-shift operator moves bits to the left, and the bitwise negation operator turns each one to a zero, and each zero to a one. Altogether, C++ has six such operators: <<, >>, ~, &, |, and ^.

The Shift Operators

The left-shift operator has the following syntax:

						value << shift
					

Here value is the integer value to be shifted, and shift is the number of bits to shift. For example:

13 << 3

means shift all the bits in the value 13 three places to the left. The vacated places are filled with zeros, and bits shifted past the end are discarded (see Figure E.1).

Figure E.1. The left-shift operator.

Because each bit position represents a value twice that ...

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