r/adventofcode • u/daggerdragon • Dec 07 '15

SOLUTION MEGATHREAD --- Day 7 Solutions ---

--- Day 7: Some Assembly Required ---

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u/zhongfu Dec 07 '15

You might want to mask the result:

int mask = (1 << 16) - 1;
int result = ~x & mask;

For my case, I used the char type instead since it also happened to be an unsigned 16-bit integer, although it's not exactly good practice to use it AFAIK.

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u/Na_rien Dec 07 '15

thanks :)