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Question: How would you find the number of bit swaps required to convert integer A to integer B? Answer: Gut instinct might suggest that you go through every bit of A and every bit of B while simultaneously updating a count of the bits that are different. But how about a cooler way to solve […]
Question: Write a function that determines the number of bits set to 1 in the binary representation of an integer. Answer: Going by the brute force approach, it would be easy to come up with the following solution. If the least significant bit of a number is 1, it will return a result of 1 […]
Question: Is your machine little or big endian? Answer: Let first take a look at the solution before we discuss about it. int isLittleEndian( void ) { unsigned int temp = 0x12345678; char * tempAddress = &temp; if( *tempAddress == 0x12 ) { return 0; // Indicating False } else { return 1; // Indicating […]
Question: How do you find out if an unsigned integer is a power of 2? Answer: The trick here is to know that an unsigned integer which is a power of 2 has only one of its bits as 1. So a simple solution would be to loop through the bits and count the number […]
