[LinuxBIOS] Another dumb C question

Joseph Smith joe at smittys.pointclark.net
Thu Jul 12 13:56:51 CEST 2007


Quoting Corey Osgood <corey.osgood at gmail.com>:

> Joseph Smith wrote:
>> Quoting Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se>:
>>
>>
>>>> value = 9
>>>>
>>>> (2 << (value - 1))
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>>> Bit shift is fine methinks but I would suggest:
>>>
>>> (1 << value)
>>>
>>> instead of
>>>
>>> (2 << (value - 1))
>>>
>>>
>>> //Peter
>>>
>>>
>> Not sure I understand. I am trying to get 2 "to the power of" value.
>>
>> if value = 9
>> (1 << value)
>> This equals 18???? Not 2^9 = 512
>> where
>> (2 << (value - 1))
>> (2 << (9 - 1))
>> 2 << 8 = 512
>>
>> Thanks - Joe
>>
>>
> remember that 2 = (1 << 1). so 2 << (value - 1) = 1 << value. I'm not
> sure where you're getting an 18 from, that makes no sense at all (since
> 18 in either hex or dec has two non-zero bits, so it's impossible to get
> that result with just that binary shift).
>
> -Corey
>
>
Well lets see if value = 9, which is 1001 in binary.
If you bitshift 1001 one position to the left it becomes 10010, correct?
Which is 18 in decimal.

Thanks - Joe




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