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  • Byte Swapping Program help

    Neeraj Sharma

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    Updated: Oct 23, 2024
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    Okay so this program was asked from me in an interview and in spite of answering all the previous questions I couldn't clear it because I could not write this program.

    Question: Consider a 32-bit machine where integer variable is of 4 bytes
    |b1|b2|b3|b4|
    Write a C program to swap b1 and b2 and swap b3 and b4. b1,b2,b3,b4 are byte 1, byte 2 and so on.

    I proposed a method to convert the integer in binary format and then divide the binary format in 4 arrays of size 8 each and then rearrange them so that the bytes are swapped. But it was a lengthy program and he told me to write this program using Union and I couldn't. So please help me with this.
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  • silverscorpion

    Member • Mar 16, 2012

    well, you can just use bitshift operator to split the bytes.. Like this:
    Let's say you have the integer stored in a variable a.

    b = a>>8; c = a<<8
a = b & c
    And that's it. Note that these are bitwise operators which operate on individual bits in the integer. The operators and how you use them differs based on the programming language.
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  • Neeraj Sharma

    Member • Mar 16, 2012

    Thanks,but he told me to do it using Unions using some kind of character buffer which confused me and I am still not able to crack this problem
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