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Re: Extracting Individual bits in C
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Originally Posted by Mike Soukup
The original macro is correct, you're just not used to thinking like a computer person; when counting, always start with 0. Bit 0 is the least significant and bit 7 is the most.

Also, GETBIT cannot return 2 or 5, it can only return 0 or 1 since 'AND'ing anything with 1 will get rid of all but the least significant bit.
oops, I missed the signifigance of the parenthases around the shift operation... You're right! It should work as you wrote it.
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