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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject: Re: How do I write directly to a memory address?
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On Feb 8, 12:01=A0pm, Hyman Rosen <hyro...@mail.com> wrote:
> On 2/8/2011 2:43 PM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>
> > Three candidates in a row I have interviewed for a C/C++/C# position co=
uld
> > not answer the question how to test the 3rd bit of a byte in C. All thr=
ee
> > had 3+ years of programming "experience."
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0(byte & (1 << (3 - 1)))

That's not the correct answer.  The correct answer is to ask, "Third
bit from which end?"  If you just assume one or the other (byte &
0x04, or byte & 0x20) and write code without asking for the specs to
be clarified, you'd fail if I were the interviewer.

Just saying.

                                    -- Adam