Converting Little Endian to Big Endian

Question

All,

I have been practicing coding problems online. Currently I am working on a problem statement Problems where we need to convert Big Endian <-> little endian.

Answer 1

the following method reverses the order of bits in a byte value:

public static byte reverseBitOrder(byte b) {
    int converted = 0x00;
    converted ^= (b & 0b1000_0000) >> 7;
    converted ^= (b & 0b0100_0000) >> 5;
    converted ^= (b & 0b0010_0000) >> 3;
    converted ^= (b & 0b0001_0000) >> 1;
    converted ^= (b & 0b0000_1000) << 1;
    converted ^= (b & 0b0000_0100) << 3;
    converted ^= (b & 0b0000_0010) << 5;
    converted ^= (b & 0b0000_0001) << 7;

    return (byte) (converted & 0xFF);
}