Hi, suppose I have an unsigned long long. I would like to extract
the front 'n' bits of this value and convert them into an integer.
For example, if I extract the first 3 bits, I would get an int between
0 and 7 (=2^3-1). Could someone please help out?
I can assume the largest returned value fits in an int. Also,
I'm on a big-endian PPC (AIX), in case that matters.
Ideally, I'd like to implement a prototype like:
int extractFrontBit s(unsigned long long value, int num_bits);
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Digital Puer wrote:
Hi, suppose I have an unsigned long long. I would like to extract
the front 'n' bits of this value and convert them into an integer.
For example, if I extract the first 3 bits, I would get an int between
0 and 7 (=2^3-1). Could someone please help out?
int three_bits = long_long_value & 7;
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pete
Digital Puer wrote: Hi, suppose I have an unsigned long long. I would like to extract
the front 'n' bits of this value and convert them into an integer.
For example, if I extract the first 3 bits, I would get an int between
0 and 7 (=2^3-1). Could someone please help out?
I can assume the largest returned value fits in an int. Also,
I'm on a big-endian PPC (AIX), in case that matters.
Ideally, I'd like to implement a prototype like:
int extractFrontBit s(unsigned long long value, int num_bits);
I'm guessing long long is 64 bits? Regardless, the following should
work:
frontbits = (original_value >> (sizeof(long long) - 3)) & 0x03;
The masking at the end is to zero out the msb of the result since on
some systems it doesn't get zeroed.
If number of bits is not fixed, then it would look something like the
following:
frontbits = original_value >> (sizeof(long long) - num_bits);
but the masking will get complicated. sl*******@yahoo .com wrote:
Digital Puer wrote: Hi, suppose I have an unsigned long long. I would like to extract
the front 'n' bits of this value and convert them into an integer.
For example, if I extract the first 3 bits,
I would get an int between
0 and 7 (=2^3-1). Could someone please help out?
I'm guessing long long is 64 bits? Regardless, the following should
work:
frontbits = (original_value >> (sizeof(long long) - 3)) & 0x03;
You're getting 2 bits from the middle of the value.
Anything & 3, ain't going to get you more than 2 bits.
You shift the original value to the right
and the low order bits disappear.
--
pete
On 10 Nov 2005 16:59:21 -0800, "Digital Puer"
<di**********@h otmail.com> wrote: Hi, suppose I have an unsigned long long. I would like to extract
the front 'n' bits of this value and convert them into an integer.
For example, if I extract the first 3 bits, I would get an int between
0 and 7 (=2^3-1). Could someone please help out?
I can assume the largest returned value fits in an int. Also,
I'm on a big-endian PPC (AIX), in case that matters.
Ideally, I'd like to implement a prototype like:
int extractFrontBit s(unsigned long long value, int num_bits);
Shift the value in the variable to the right
(sizeof(unsigne d long long)*CHAR_BIT - n)
bits. The result is the integer you requested.
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pete wrote:
Digital Puer wrote:
Hi, suppose I have an unsigned long long. I would like to extract
the front 'n' bits of this value and convert them into an integer.
For example, if I extract the first 3 bits,
I would get an int between
0 and 7 (=2^3-1). Could someone please help out?
int three_bits = long_long_value & 7;
n bits, ... hmm ...
long_long_value & ((1ULL << n) - 1)
--
pete
"Digital Puer" <di**********@h otmail.com> writes: Hi, suppose I have an unsigned long long. I would like to extract
the front 'n' bits of this value and convert them into an integer.
For example, if I extract the first 3 bits, I would get an int between
0 and 7 (=2^3-1). Could someone please help out?
What do you mean by "front" bits?
--
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San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst>
We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.
pete wrote: sl*******@yahoo .com wrote:
Digital Puer wrote: Hi, suppose I have an unsigned long long. I would like to extract
the front 'n' bits of this value and convert them into an integer.
For example, if I extract the first 3 bits,
I would get an int between
0 and 7 (=2^3-1). Could someone please help out?
I'm guessing long long is 64 bits? Regardless, the following should
work:
frontbits = (original_value >> (sizeof(long long) - 3)) & 0x03;
You're getting 2 bits from the middle of the value.
Anything & 3, ain't going to get you more than 2 bits.
You shift the original value to the right
and the low order bits disappear.
--
pete
Ah, sorry, it should be:
frontbits = (original_value >> (sizeof(long long) - 3)) & 0x07; sl*******@yahoo .com wrote:
pete wrote: sl*******@yahoo .com wrote:
Digital Puer wrote:
> Hi, suppose I have an unsigned long long.
> I would like to extract
> the front 'n' bits of this value and convert them
> into an integer.
> For example, if I extract the first 3 bits,
> I would get an int between
> 0 and 7 (=2^3-1). Could someone please help out? I'm guessing long long is 64 bits?
Regardless, the following should
work:
frontbits =
(original_value >> (sizeof(long long) - 3)) & 0x03;
You're getting 2 bits from the middle of the value.
Anything & 3, ain't going to get you more than 2 bits.
You shift the original value to the right
and the low order bits disappear.
Ah, sorry, it should be:
frontbits = (original_value >> (sizeof(long long) - 3)) & 0x07;
Barry Schwarz also seems to think that shifting the original
value to the right, is the right thing to do.
I don't get it.
I'll assume you think that CHAR_BIT is 8.
That makes your 64 bit bit long long, 8 bytes in size.
8 - 3 is two, so you shift your unsigned long long
two bits to the right, which is equivalent to dividing by 4,
and then you take the 3 lower order bits.
What is that?
--
pete
Digital Puer wrote:
Hi, suppose I have an unsigned long long. I would like to extract
the front 'n' bits of this value and convert them into an integer.
For example, if I extract the first 3 bits, I would get an int between
0 and 7 (=2^3-1). Could someone please help out?
I can assume the largest returned value fits in an int. Also,
I'm on a big-endian PPC (AIX), in case that matters.
Ideally, I'd like to implement a prototype like:
int extractFrontBit s(unsigned long long value, int num_bits);
int extractFrontBit s(unsigned long long value, int num_bits)
{
return (int)(value & ((1ULL << num_bits) - 1))
}
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