Best practices for circular shift (rotate) operations in C++

Question

Left and right shift operators (<< and >>) are already available in C++. However, I couldn\'t find out how I could perform circular shift or rotate operations.

Answer 1

another suggestion

template
inline T rotl(T x, unsigned char moves){
    unsigned char temp;
    __asm{
        mov temp, CL
        mov CL, moves
        rol x, CL
        mov CL, temp
    };
    return x;
}