Practical applications of bit shifting

Question

I totally understand how to shift bits. I\'ve worked through numerous examples on paper and in code and don\'t need any help there.

I\'m trying to come up

Answer 1

The most common example of bitwise shift usage I know is for setting and clearing bits.

uint8_t bla = INIT_VALUE;

bla |= (1U << N);   // Set N-th bit
bla &= ~(1U << N);  // Clear N-th bit