How to reverse bits...

[Frank P. Bresz]

In article <464.26c93018 at astro.pc.ab.com> browns at astro.pc.ab.com (Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems) writes:


>Please, no magic numbers.  You can use the bitwise-complement operator, ~ tilde
>(pronounced, "squiggle").

>	c = ~c

>It works on any numeric type, and the result has the same type as the operand.
>Typical application: to sset all the bits in n unsigned word:

	Great solution obviously but it is not (pronounced, "squiggle").
its pronounced tilda.

	
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