compl operator
| compl operator | Bitwise complement operator |
unary-expr := ~ cast-expr | compl cast-expr |
The bitwise complement operator requires an integer or enumeration operand. It performs the usual arithmetic promotion and toggles each bit of its operand, resulting in an integer.
The compl keyword is interchangeable with the ~ token.
Example
unsigned bitmask; bitmask = ~0xF107; // bitmask becomes 0xFFFF0EF8 (32 bits).
See Also
bitand, bitor, expression, not, xor, Chapter 3, <ciso646>
