Bit Flipping in Hex
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I have an 8 digit hexadecimal number of which I need certain digits to be either 0 or f. Given the specific place of the digits is there a quick way to generate the hex number with those places "flipped" to f. For example:
flip_digits(1) = 0x000000f
flip_digits(1,2,4) = 0x0000f0ff
flip_digits(1,7,8) = 0xff00000f
I'm doing this on an embedded device so I can't call any math libraries, I suspect it can be done with just bit shifts but I can't quite figure out the method. Any sort of solution (Python, C, Pseudocode) will work. Thanks in advance.
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