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From: wirthlin@uvm-gen.UUCP (Ralph Wirthlin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Bit Switching - How?
Keywords: bits, flip
Message-ID: <1138@uvm-gen.UUCP>
Date: 3 Apr 89 21:28:42 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: EMBA Computer Facility, Univ. of Vermont, Burlington.
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This may have already been asked, but ...

Does anyone know of a *very fast* way to swap bits at some location n 
between two separate bytes b1 and b2?

	       offset
	      3 2 1 0
	      =======	
e.g.    b1 -> 0 0 1 1 
	b2 -> 1 0 1 0
	
swapping bits at offset 3 would produce

	       offset
	      3 2 1 0
	      =======
	b1 -> 1 0 1 1
	b2 -> 0 0 1 0


Thanks for any help you can give.

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