11. Operations on Bits
As mentioned on previous occasions, the C language was developed with systems programming applications in mind. Pointers are the perfect case in point because they give the programmer an enormous amount of control over and access into the computer’s memory. Along these same lines, systems programmers frequently must get in and “twiddle with the bits” of particular computer words. You will learn how to manipulate bits with C-programming operators, including
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