Bitwise Operators in C

 Bitwise Operators in C

Bitwise operators allow you to perform operations on individual bits of integers. These operators are useful for low-level operations, such as manipulating hardware registers or implementing data structures.

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {

    unsigned int num1 = 10;  // 0000 1010

    unsigned int num2 = 5;   // 0000 0101

    unsigned int result1 = num1 & num2;   // Bitwise AND

    unsigned int result2 = num1 | num2;   // Bitwise OR

    unsigned int result3 = num1 ^ num2;   // Bitwise XOR

    unsigned int result4 = ~num1;         // Bitwise NOT

    unsigned int result5 = num1 << 2;     // Left shift

    unsigned int result6 = num1 >> 1;     // Right shift

    printf("Result 1: %u\n", result1);

    printf("Result 2: %u\n", result2);

    printf("Result 3: %u\n", result3);

    printf("Result 4: %u\n", result4);

    printf("Result 5: %u\n", result5);

    printf("Result 6: %u\n", result6);

    return 0;

}

In this example, bitwise operators are used to perform various bitwise operations on two unsigned integers. The results are displayed using printf.