C++ Bitwise Operators

Bitwise operators are used to perform a bit-level operation on operands. They are used in testing, setting, or shifting the actual bits in a program.

You can see the truth table below.

p	q	p & q	p | q	p ^ q	~p
0	0	0	0	0	1
0	1	0	1	1	1
1	1	1	1	0	0
1	0	0	1	1	0

Below are the list of Bitwise operators:

Operators	Name of operators
&	Bitwise AND
|	Bitwise OR
^	Bitwise XOR
~	Bitwise complement
<<	Shift left
>>	Shift right

• The right shift operator (>>) shifts all bits towards the right by a certain number of specified bits.
• The left shift operator (<<) shifts all bits towards the left by a certain number of specified bits.

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C++ Program for Bitwise operator

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
   unsigned int a = 60;	// 60 = 0011 1100  
   unsigned int b = 13;	// 13 = 0000 1101
   int result = 0;

   result = a &b;	// 12 = 0000 1100
   cout << "& Operator: " << result << endl;

   result = a | b;	// 61 = 0011 1101
   cout << "| Operator: " << result << endl;

   result = a ^ b;	// 49 = 0011 0001
   cout << "^ Operator: " << result << endl;

   result = ~a;	// -61 = 1100 0011
   cout << "~ Operator: " << result << endl;

   result = a << 2;	// 240 = 1111 0000
   cout << "<< Operator: " << result << endl;

   result = a >> 2;	// 15 = 0000 1111
   cout << ">> Operator: " << result << endl;

   return 0;
}

Output:

& Operator: 12
| Operator: 61
^ Operator: 49
~ Operator: -61
<< Operator: 240
>> Operator: 1

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