C provides the following operators for handling bit patterns:
<<
Bit-shift left by a specified number of bit positions
>>
Bit-shift right by a specified number of bit positions
|
Bitwise inclusive OR
^
Bitwise exclusive OR
&
Bitwise AND
~
Bitwise NOT
<<=
Bit-shift left assignment (var = var << value)
>>=
Bit-shift right assignment (var = var >> value)
|=
Exclusive OR assignment (var = var | value)
^=
Inclusive OR assignment (var = var ^ value)
&=
AND assignment (var = var & value)
The meaning and syntax of these operators is given below.
Don't confuse bitwise operators (such as bitwise AND, &) with
logical operators (such as logical AND, &&). Bitwise operators
operate on each bit in the operand individually.
