[Arakageeta256]

I pose a simple question: Is there a way to code binary digits into a program rather than typical decimal.

I know this is possible with hex and oct, but I can't find any information about binary.

I want something like this: 0xA only for binary-- not hex.

I thought this should be something easy to do, but I can't find mention of such a feature in any of my books. I thought I would try you guys out.

[CyberDave]

Originally posted by Arakageeta256:
<STRONG>I pose a simple question: Is there a way to code binary digits into a program rather than typical decimal.

I know this is possible with hex and oct, but I can't find any information about binary.

I want something like this: 0xA only for binary-- not hex.

I thought this should be something easy to do, but I can't find mention of such a feature in any of my books. I thought I would try you guys out.</STRONG>

Woah...I could have sworn there is a way to do this in C++. But after checking my reference manual, I can't find any mention of this. I though it was something like this
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1"face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial">code:</font><HR><pre><font size=1 face=courier>int foo = 010101010b;</font>[/code]

Note the 'b' at the end. Strange. Just tested it in Project Builder and it didn't work. Guess it's not possible to do that. Apparently nobody uses binary anymore :-)

CyberDave

[parallax]

!

Same here, I knew it was either 0b1010101010 or 1010101010b.

But it seems to have disappeared (won't compile). I *know* I used binary constants before...

[parallax]

Come to think of it, the last time I used binary constants was in VirtualPC using TIGCC (compiler for TI calculators) for coding sprites. I'm not sure if I ever used it on cc.

[LordJavac]

There is no language construct for binary in C/C++ (it would be 0b01010101 if there was). However, hex is very suitable to any thing you'd want to cade as binary since hex is really just shorthand for binary. I use hex all the time for bit masking.

[Arakageeta256]

C/C++ supports almost every assbackward way of doing things. It's amazing that this isn't. Oh well, I guess hex will do fine.