11.4 The Bitwise Exclusive OR (^)

The exclusive OR (also known as XOR) operator results in a 1 when either of its two operands is a 1, but not both. The truth table for the exclusive OR operator is listed in Table 11-5.

Table 11-5. Bitwise exclusive OR operator

Bit1	Bit2	Bit1 ^ Bit2
0	0	0
0	1	1
1	0	1
1	1	0

Here's an example of bitwise exclusive OR performed on a byte:

       i1=0x47       01000111 
^      i2=0x53       01010011
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         0x14        00010100