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

--- Substituting RLC in 8051 C for speed --- Rotate left carry
Here is an example using RLC to update a serial 8 bit DAC msb first:
                               (r=DACVAL, P1.4= SDO, P1.5= SCLK)
MOV     A, r
?1:
MOV     B, #8
RLC     A
MOV     P1.4, C
CLR     P1.5
SETB    P1.5
DJNZ    B, ?1

Here is the code in 8051 C at its fastest:
sbit ACC_7  = ACC ^ 7 ; //define this at the top to access bit 7 of ACC
ACC     =   r;
B       =   8;  
do  {
P1_4    =   ACC_7;  // this assembles into mov c, acc.7  mov P1.4, c 
ACC     <<= 1;
P1_5    =   0;
P1_5    =   1;
B       --  ; 
    } while ( B!=0 );
The keil compiler will use DJNZ when a loop is written this way.
I am cheating here by using registers ACC and B in c code.
If you cannot cheat then substitute with:
P1_4    =   ( r & 128 ) ? 1 : 0 ;
r     <<=   1;
This only takes a few extra instructions.
Also, changing B for a local var char n is the same.
Keil does rotate ACC left by ADD A, ACC which is the same as multiply 2.
It only takes one extra opcode i think.
Keeping code entirely in C keeps things simpler sometimes.

Answer 2

Definitively:

template<class T>
T ror(T x, unsigned int moves)
{
  return (x >> moves) | (x << sizeof(T)*8 - moves);
}

Answer 3

If x is an 8 bit value, you can use this:

x=(x>>1 | x<<7);

Answer 4

Overload a function:

unsigned int rotate_right(unsigned int x)
{
 return (x>>1 | (x&1?0x80000000:0))
}

unsigned short rotate_right(unsigned short x) { /* etc. */ }