Does C have circular shift operators?

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    Aakanksha
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    Does C have circular shift operators?

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    Aakanksha
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    No. (Part of the reason why is that the sizes of C’s types aren’t precisely defined—-but a circular shift makes most sense when applied to a word of a particular known size.)

    You can implement a circular shift using two regular shifts and a bitwise OR:

    (x << 13) | (x > >3) /* circular shift left 13 in 16 bits */

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