Converting integer to a bit representation

Question

How can I convert a integer to its bit representation. I want to take an integer and return a vector that has contains 1\'s and 0\'s of the integer\'s bit representation.

Answer 1

The world's worst integer to bit as bytes converter:

#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 

class zero_ascii_iterator: public std::iterator
{
public:
    zero_ascii_iterator &operator++()
    {
        return *this;
    }

    char operator *() const
    {
        return '0';
    }
};


char bits[33];

_itoa(value, bits, 2);
std::transform(
    bits, 
    bits + strlen(bits), 
    zero_ascii_iterator(), 
    bits, 
    std::minus());