Chapter - 15: Operations On Bits

Write a program to receive an unsigned 16-bit integer and then exchange the contents of two bytes using bitwise operators.


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#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
#include<Windows.h>
#include<math.h>

#define _bv(x) 1<<x
#define _ls(x,y) x<<y
#define _rs(x,y) x>>y

typedef unsigned short int Store;

void bitexchange(Store*);

int main()
{
	Store num;
	printf("Enter number : ");
	scanf("%hu", &num);
	printf("Before exchange\n");
	printf("num : %u\n", num);
	bitexchange(&num);
	printf("After Exchange its bytes :-\n");
	printf("num : %u\n", num);
	_getch();
	return 0;
}

void bitexchange(Store *num)
{
	unsigned char left, right;

	//	First byte (8-bits) goes to left side.
	left = _ls(*num, 8);

	//Second byts(8 - bits) goes to right side.
	right = _rs(*num, 8);

	*num = 0;
	*num = right | left;
}

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