Low-Level C Programming

In its role as a high level assembler used for writing operating systems, C is often used to access memory locations and change individual bits. You might for example need to access individual bits in an int. It can sometimes be useful to conserve memory by using a byte to hold 8 flags though with an abundance of ram it's common to just use one byte per flag or even one per int. Knowing how to extract or alter individual bits is still worthwhile knowing; you may never have to use it but when you have to maintain code that...