From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20015 invoked by alias); 19 Feb 2003 13:08:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 20008 invoked from network); 19 Feb 2003 13:08:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp-relay-2.adobe.com) (192.150.11.2) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 19 Feb 2003 13:08:37 -0000 Received: from inner-relay-2.corp.adobe.com (inner-relay-2 [153.32.1.52]) by smtp-relay-2.adobe.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h1JD8ZAC014592 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 05:08:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from iplan-mn.corp.adobe.com (iplan-mn.corp.adobe.com [130.248.25.5]) by inner-relay-2.corp.adobe.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h1JD8U4W028959 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 05:08:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from [130.248.25.220] ([153.32.12.150]) by iplan-mn.corp.adobe.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 mn Jul 11 2001 16:32:57) with ESMTP id HAK4I500.0AV; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 07:08:29 -0600 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1331 Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 13:08:00 -0000 Subject: Re: c++, gcc3.2.2 and bitwise operations From: John Love-Jensen To: , Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <43834.64.169.83.2.1045618399.squirrel@webmail01.get2chip.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-02/txt/msg00173.txt.bz2 Hi Chris, > How can I play with the guts of a variable one bit at a time in c++? The C++ way is to use the #include , as describe in Stroustrup's C++PL (3rd) in section 17.5.3. Sincerely, --Eljay