A c program to test if a bit is set in an unsigned long array basically

Look at this very recent question, look similar to your needs:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21400697/Pointers-and-char-deciphering-code.html

#define ISSET(VAR,X) ((VAR) & (1<<(X)))

This simple one line macro does the trick ... VAR is the unsigned long or any variable which you need to check and X is the bit number starting from least significant bit (LSB) and couting from 0.
e.g.

if ( ISSET(mylong, 3))
      printf ("bit number 3 is set\n");
note that we are counting from 0 ... If you wish to count from 1, modify macro to have X-1 instead of X

if the above macro is too complicated for u try this


assuming that long u have is of 4 bytes

void test_bit(long int array[], int sizeof_array)
{

for (int i=0; i<sizeof_array; i++)
{
if (array[i] && 1)  printf(" Bit 1 is set ");
if (array[i] && 2) printf(" Bit 2 is set ");
if (array[i] && 4) printf(" Bit 3 is set ");
if (array[i] && 8) printf(" Bit 4 is set ");
if (array[i] && 16) printf(" Bit 5 is set ");
if (array[i] && 32) printf(" Bit 6 is set ");
if (array[i] && 64) printf(" Bit 7 is set ");
if (array[i] && 128) printf(" Bit 8 is set ");
if (array[i] && 256) printf(" Bit 9 is set ");
if (array[i] && 512) printf(" Bit 10 is set ");
if (array[i] && 1024) printf(" Bit 11 is set ");
if (array[i] && 2048) printf(" Bit 12 is set ");
if (array[i] && 4096 ) printf(" Bit 13 is set ");
if (array[i] && 8192) printf(" Bit 14 is set ");
if (array[i] && 16384) printf(" Bit 15 is set ");
if (array[i] && 32768 ) printf(" Bit 16 is set ");
}//for


}// end of function


not very efficent but should work

Not very efficient, takes up lot more space, and does not work ;-) ... Each of the && should have been & instead

It is better done in a loop that unrolling it out

for ( i=0; i < sizeof(long)*8; i++ )
{
       if ( 1 == var & (1<<i) )
                printf ("bit %d is set\n",i);
}

thanks sunnycoder for the correction


mr sanjay thakur plz note the correction made by sunnycoder

the line shoud be
if (array[i] & 16384) printf(" Bit 15 is set ");  not   if (array[i] && 16384) printf(" Bit 15 is set ");

ie if u bother to use my code snippet which is not very efficent but does expalin how it should be done

int get_bit(unsigned long arr[], int bitnum) {
    int idx = bitnum / BITS_PER_LONG;
    int mask = (((unsigned long)1) << (bitnum % BITS_PER_LONG));
    return (arr[idx] & mask) != 0;
}

void set_bit(unsigned long arr[], int bitnum, int value) {
    int idx = bitnum / BITS_PER_LONG;
    int mask = (((unsigned long)1) << (bitnum % BITS_PER_LONG));
    if (value) {
        arr[idx] |= mask;
    } else {
        arr[idx] &= ~mask;
    }
}  

dangit, 'int mask' above should be 'unsigned long mask' in both routines.