How do I get bit-by-bit data from an integer value in C?

Question

I want to extract bits of a decimal number.

For example, 7 is binary 0111, and I want to get 0 1 1 1 all bits stored in bool. How can I do so?

OK, a loop is

Answer 1

Here's one way to do it—there are many others:

bool b[4];
int v = 7;  // number to dissect

for (int j = 0;  j < 4;  ++j)
   b [j] =  0 != (v & (1 << j));

It is hard to understand why use of a loop is not desired, but it is easy enough to unroll the loop:

bool b[4];
int v = 7;  // number to dissect

b [0] =  0 != (v & (1 << 0));
b [1] =  0 != (v & (1 << 1));
b [2] =  0 != (v & (1 << 2));
b [3] =  0 != (v & (1 << 3));

Or evaluating constant expressions in the last four statements:

b [0] =  0 != (v & 1);
b [1] =  0 != (v & 2);
b [2] =  0 != (v & 4);
b [3] =  0 != (v & 8);