Syntax:

boole op integer-1 integer-2 => result-integer

Arguments and Values:

Op---a bit-wise logical operation specifier.

integer-1---an integer.

integer-2---an integer.

result-integer---an integer.

Description:

boole performs bit-wise logical operations on integer-1 and integer-2, which are treated as if they were binary and in two's complement representation.

The operation to be performed and the return value are determined by op.

boole returns the values specified for any op in the next figure.

Op           Result                                      
boole-1      integer-1                                   
boole-2      integer-2                                   
boole-andc1  and complement of integer-1 with integer-2  
boole-andc2  and integer-1 with complement of integer-2  
boole-and    and                                         
boole-c1     complement of integer-1                     
boole-c2     complement of integer-2                     
boole-clr    always 0 (all zero bits)                    
boole-eqv    equivalence (exclusive nor)                 
boole-ior    inclusive or                                
boole-nand   not-and                                     
boole-nor    not-or                                      
boole-orc1   or complement of integer-1 with integer-2   
boole-orc2   or integer-1 with complement of integer-2   
boole-set    always -1 (all one bits)                    
boole-xor    exclusive or                                

Figure 12-17. Bit-Wise Logical Operations

Examples:

 (boole boole-ior 1 16) =>  17
 (boole boole-and -2 5) =>  4
 (boole boole-eqv 17 15) =>  -31

;;; These examples illustrate the result of applying BOOLE and each
;;; of the possible values of OP to each possible combination of bits.
 (progn
   (format t "~&Results of (BOOLE <op> #b0011 #b0101) ...~
           ~%---Op-------Decimal-----Binary----Bits---~%")
   (dolist (symbol '(boole-1     boole-2    boole-and  boole-andc1
                     boole-andc2 boole-c1   boole-c2   boole-clr
                     boole-eqv   boole-ior  boole-nand boole-nor
                     boole-orc1  boole-orc2 boole-set  boole-xor))
     (let ((result (boole (symbol-value symbol) #b0011 #b0101)))
       (format t "~& ~A~13T~3,' D~23T~:*~5,' B~31T ...~4,'0B~%" 
               symbol result (logand result #b1111)))))
>>  Results of (BOOLE <op> #b0011 #b0101) ...
>>  ---Op-------Decimal-----Binary----Bits---
>>   BOOLE-1       3          11    ...0011
>>   BOOLE-2       5         101    ...0101
>>   BOOLE-AND     1           1    ...0001
>>   BOOLE-ANDC1   4         100    ...0100
>>   BOOLE-ANDC2   2          10    ...0010
>>   BOOLE-C1     -4        -100    ...1100
>>   BOOLE-C2     -6        -110    ...1010
>>   BOOLE-CLR     0           0    ...0000
>>   BOOLE-EQV    -7        -111    ...1001
>>   BOOLE-IOR     7         111    ...0111
>>   BOOLE-NAND   -2         -10    ...1110
>>   BOOLE-NOR    -8       -1000    ...1000
>>   BOOLE-ORC1   -3         -11    ...1101
>>   BOOLE-ORC2   -5        -101    ...1011
>>   BOOLE-SET    -1          -1    ...1111
>>   BOOLE-XOR     6         110    ...0110
=>  NIL

Affected By: None.

Exceptional Situations:

Should signal type-error if its first argument is not a bit-wise logical operation specifier or if any subsequent argument is not an integer.

See Also:

logand

Notes:

In general,

 (boole boole-and x y) ==  (logand x y)

Programmers who would prefer to use numeric indices rather than bit-wise logical operation specifiers can get an equivalent effect by a technique such as the following:

;; The order of the values in this `table' are such that
;; (logand (boole (elt boole-n-vector n) #b0101 #b0011) #b1111) => n
 (defconstant boole-n-vector
    (vector boole-clr   boole-and  boole-andc1 boole-2
            boole-andc2 boole-1    boole-xor   boole-ior
            boole-nor   boole-eqv  boole-c1    boole-orc1
            boole-c2    boole-orc2 boole-nand  boole-set))
=>  BOOLE-N-VECTOR
 (proclaim '(inline boole-n))
=>  implementation-dependent
 (defun boole-n (n integer &rest more-integers)
   (apply #'boole (elt boole-n-vector n) integer more-integers))
=>  BOOLE-N
 (boole-n #b0111 5 3) =>  7
 (boole-n #b0001 5 3) =>  1
 (boole-n #b1101 5 3) =>  -3
 (loop for n from #b0000 to #b1111 collect (boole-n n 5 3))
=>  (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1)