This is a toy problem to illustrate that CoPilot cannot write code that requires mathematical reasoning. It regurgitates solutions from the training set, via a mixed internal reresentation.
unsigned int swapbits(unsigned int a)
{
bool bit6 = a & (1 << 5);
bool bit17 = a & (1 << 16);
if (bit6 == bit17) return a; //bits are the same, do nothing
return (a ^ (1 << 5) ^ (1 << 16)); // flip both 6th and 17th bits
}
#define B6 (1<<5)
#define B17 (1<<16)
unsigned swapbits(unsigned a) {
return ((a & B6 == a & B17) ? a : (a ^ (B6 | B17)));
}
Here's some BFP:
unsigned swapbits(unsigned a) {
unsigned flip = (a & B6 == a & B17);
return (a ^ ((flip<<5) | (flip<<16)));
}
int and double are C's implicit lingua francas for underspecified literals and implicit type conversions. Throwing int everywhere is redundant like "ATM machine."
The definition of flip requires parenthesis (a & B6) == (a & B17) as == has higher precedence than and. int is required in C++ but not in C as you said.
