variables with a big number of bit and bit operation

[none]

sorry for my bad english.

i'm trying to create variables made by a number of bit rounding about 500
bit, on which i can perform bit operations like & and |.
the problem is that i'm unable to resolve this problem without chunking the
variable in smaller parts, and this is a solution that i wouldn't use.

so everything you can say for helping me is wellcome.

thanks in advance,
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[Walter Roberson]

In article <43**********************@reader1.news.tin.it>,
none <no**@none.none> wrote:

i'm trying to create variables made by a number of bit rounding about 500
bit, on which i can perform bit operations like & and |.
the problem is that i'm unable to resolve this problem without chunking the
variable in smaller parts, and this is a solution that i wouldn't use.

If you refuse to chunking of the variable into smaller parts, then
you will need to:

a) find some very specific hardware that supports large bit operations
and code only for that; or

b) use a different programming language which will hide the chunking
from your sight; or

c) give up.
There is nothing you can do in standard C that can extend the
number of bits that the hardware itself can operate on at one time.
If the maximum word size that a particular compiler can use on
a particular machine is 32 bits, then there is not going to be anything
you can do to force the hardware to operate on 33 or 48 or 64 bits.
All you -can- do is write software routines that operate on a chunk
at a time.
--
"No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by
demanding empirical evidence." -- Ann Landers

[mensanator]

none wrote:

sorry for my bad english.

i'm trying to create variables made by a number of bit rounding about 500
bit, on which i can perform bit operations like & and |.
the problem is that i'm unable to resolve this problem without chunking the
variable in smaller parts, and this is a solution that i wouldn't use.

so everything you can say for helping me is wellcome.

thanks in advance,
--

Try using

GNU MP
The GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library

This will give you bit operations on unlimited precision integers
along with some other interesting functions like scanning for the
least significant 1 or 0 bit, population count (number of 1 bits)
and Hamming distance (count of bit differences).