Just checking, but did you know that perl also has bitwise operators? You can do your bit vector operations in perl just as easily, and if you are more familiar with perl then you can try out bits of syntax in the perl debugger as usual. Just use sprintf '%b' or sprintf '%032b' to render a number in binary, and 0b to type one in.

eg to try out a bitwise OR:

sprintf '%032b', ( 0b1100 | 0b0110 )

Having said that, if your inline function needs to do a lot more than just basic bitwise manipulations, then there is no reason why you should not do it in C instead of perl. I am fairly sure that the perl and C syntax are the same, though the operator precedence might be different. I suggest you try and see what happens. You can debug with lots of printf statements or use another debugger.

In reply to Re: Bit vector fiddling with Inline C by chrestomanci
in thread Bit vector fiddling with Inline C by oxone

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