How to extract specific bits from a number in C?

Question

I need to extract specific part (no of bits) of a short data type in C.

For Example I have a binary of 52504 as 11001101000 11000 and I want First 6 (

Answer 1

unsigned int extract_n2mbits(unsigned int x, int n, int m)
{
unsigned int mask, tmp;
if (n < m) {
    n = n + m;
    m = n - m;
    n = n - m;
}
mask = 1 << (n - m + 1);
tmp = m;
while (tmp > 1) {
    mask = mask << 1 | 1 << (n - m + 1);
    tmp = tmp - 1;
}
return ((x & mask) >> (n - m + 1));
}