sigmacunfu wrote:
> 1. I want to know, if it's possible to have a pointer that is pointing
> to an individual bit, say, of an "int"?
No. Not in the language that is the topic of this newsgroup, anyway.
> 2. Suppose that I have declared a "unsigned int", using bitwise
> operations, I have set the higher 16 bits to 1, is it possible now
> that without using bitwise operations, I could copy a 16-bit "unsigned
> short" into its lower 16 bits?
No. Or rather: only by venturing into the realm of undefined behaviour.
For starters, you don't even get to know that an unsigned in _has_
separate upper and lower 16 bit parts to be written to. It could be a
16-bit integer.
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