[ILUG] OT: Elementary C question

[John McCormac]

Michael Turley wrote:
> 
> I'm probably chancing my arm here but I've been trying
> to finish a bit swapping program. The program is
> supposed to reverse the bit order in every byte of a
> binary file (I want it actually to reverse the bits in
> a 2 byte type but that can wait for the moment).


At the moment I'm just awake and have not had any coffee - the code frag
below may give a indication - it uses the bitwise shift operators >> <<.

c = (c << 1) | (c >> 7); /* rotate one bit left */

Regards...jmcc
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