How to compare two bit values in C?
I've been dabbling around a bit with C and I find that being able to directly manipulate bits is fascinating and powerful (and dangerous I suppose). I was curious as to what the best way would be to compare different bits in C would be. For instance, the number 15 is represented in binary as:
00001111
And the number 13 is represented as:
00001101
How would you compare what bits are different without counting them? It would be easy to use shifts to determine that 15 contains 4 1s and 13 contains 3 1s, but how would you output the difference between the two (ex that the 2^1 spot is different between the two)? I just can't think of an easy way to do this. Any pointers would be much appreciated!
EDIT: I should have clarified that开发者_如何学JAVA I know XOR is the right way to go about this problem, but I had an issue with implementation. I guess my issue was comparing one bit at a time (and not generating the difference per say). The solution I came up with is:
void compare(int vector1, int vector2) {
int count = 0;
unsigned int xor = vector1 ^ vector2;
while (count < bit_length) {
if (xor % 2 == 1) { //would indicicate a difference
printf("%d ", count);
}
xor >>= 1;
count++;
}
}
Use bitwise operations:
c = a ^ b ;
00000010b = 00001111b ^ 00001101b;
What ^
, or XOR, does is:
0 ^ 0 = 0
1 ^ 0 = 1
0 ^ 1 = 1
1 ^ 1 = 0
One way of thinking about it would be:
If the two operands (
a
andb
) are different, the result is1
.
If they are equal, the result is0
.
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