15. Bit Fiddling

You will learn about the following in this chapter:

Image Operators:

~ & |^

>> <<

&= |= ^= >>= <<=

Image Binary, octal, and hexadecimal number notations (a review)

Image Two C facilities for handling the individual bits in a value: bitwise operators and bit fields

Image Keywords:

_Alignas, _Alignof

With C, you can manipulate the individual bits in a variable. ...

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