The tilde operator in C

Question

I\'ve seen the tilde operator used in the ELF hashing algorithm, and I\'m curious what it does. (The code is from Eternally Confused.)

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Answer 1

The tilde character is used as an operator to invert all bits of an integer (bitwise NOT).

For example: ~0x0044 = 0xFFBB.