Cache simulator - bit shifting
I'm attempting to make a cache simulator in C++. But I need to access individual bits in an integer to figure out where in my "cache" the writing actually gets done. I'm pretty new to bit shifting. Say I'm trying to access the the bits of the int 5, which are its "address". I'm simulating a direct mapped cache. I need to find its tag, the set it goes into, and which line. How do I use bit shifting to access the bits to aquire the tag, the index bits, offset bits, block number...all these pieces in order to actually find where I store it in the cache.
I need to break the bits up into 3 sections: tag, set index, and block index. I think I can figure out the set and block index sizes based on the values passed in. The tag bits are just the remaining ones. And I'm hard coding values such as cache size (C) - 1024, number of physical address bits (m) - 32, block size (B) - 2, number of lines per set (E) - 1 (again, directly mapped cache). How would this look? I'll be using unsigned longs, so it can handle up to 64 bits. Thank you!