help with setbits function
Hi, I've been reading The C Programming Language book and one of the excersises is to write a setbits(x, p, n, y) function that returns x with the n bits that begin at position p set to the rightmost n bits of y and am really stuck on how to do it.
Here's my code so far, all i need is to finish the result variable:
Code:
/* setbits.c
* program to return x with the n bits at position p to the rightmost n bits of y
*/
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <math.h>
unsigned setbits(unsigned *x, int *p, int *n, unsigned *y);
void binary_out(unsigned *num);
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
if (argc < 5)
{
fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s <num1> <num2> <num3> <num4>\n", argv[0]);
return -1;
}
unsigned a = atoi(argv[1]);
int b = atoi(argv[2]);
int c = atoi(argv[3]);
unsigned d = atoi(argv[4]);
setbits(&a, &b, &c, &d);
return 0;
}
void binary_out(unsigned *num)
{
int i;
for (i = 256; i > 0; i>>=1)
{
if ((*num & i) == i)
printf("%d", 1);
else
printf("%d", 0);
}
printf("\n");
}
// return x with the n bits at position p to the rightmost n bits of y
unsigned setbits(unsigned *x, int *p, int *n, unsigned *y)
{
printf("x is: ");
binary_out(x);
printf("y is: ");
binary_out(y);
unsigned result = ((*x
printf("and the result is: ");
binary_out(&result);
}
could anyone guide me through it with examples or anything.
Thanks.
