Hi all,
I am new to programming, and learning bit operations. I have written a code which is supposed to set selected bits in a character array to 1 from 0.
When I run this code, I get segmentation fault as output.
I tried to find similar examples on internet, but all explain bit operations but none explain with any sample codes.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Code:
main(){
unsigned char *bitmap; //bitmap array
int i = 0;
for (i=0; i<3; i++){ //for 3 chars = 3 bytes = 24 bits
bitmap[i]=0;
}
int base_bit = 3, //trying to convert 00000000 00000000 00000000
bits_from_base = 15, // to 00111111 11111111 11000000
bit_index=0;
for (i=base_bit/8; i<(base_bit+bits_from_base)/8; i++){
if( i==base_bit/8 ){ //First byte:change the bit_index and all last bytes after it to 1
bit_index = i%8;
while(bit_index<8){
bitmap[i] |= (0x10>>bit_index);
bit_index++;
}
}
else if( i==(base_bit+bits_from_base)/8 ){//Last byte:change the first bytes till bit index to 1
bit_index = i%8;
while(bit_index>=0){
bitmap[i] |= (0x10>>bit_index);
bit_index--;
}
}
else{ //all the bytes between first and last
bitmap[i] |= 0x11;
}
}
cout << "The final bitmap is: " << bitmap << " \n";
}