Best practices for circular shift (rotate) operations in C++

Question

Left and right shift operators (<< and >>) are already available in C++. However, I couldn\'t find out how I could perform circular shift or rotate operations.

Answer 1

The correct answer is following:

#define BitsCount( val ) ( sizeof( val ) * CHAR_BIT )
#define Shift( val, steps ) ( steps % BitsCount( val ) )
#define ROL( val, steps ) ( ( val << Shift( val, steps ) ) | ( val >> ( BitsCount( val ) - Shift( val, steps ) ) ) )
#define ROR( val, steps ) ( ( val >> Shift( val, steps ) ) | ( val << ( BitsCount( val ) - Shift( val, steps ) ) ) )