title Signed Bitwise Operations | Microsoft Docs ms.custom ms.date 11/04/2016 ms.reviewer ms.suite ms.technology cpp-language ms.tgt_pltfrm ms.topic article dev_langs C++ helpviewer_keywords bitwise operations signed bitwise operations ms.assetid 1e5cf65b-ee32-41a0-a5c2-82c1854091f6 caps.latest.revision 6 author mikeblome ms.author mblome manager ghogen translation.priority.ht cs-cz de-de es-es fr-fr it-it ja-jp ko-kr pl-pl pt-br ru-ru tr-tr zh-cn zh-tw Signed Bitwise Operations ANSI 3.3 The results of bitwise operations on signed integers Bitwise operations on signed integers work the same as bitwise operations on unsigned integers. For example, -16 & 99 can be expressed in binary as 11111111 11110000 & 00000000 01100011 _________________ 00000000 01100000 The result of the bitwise AND is 96. See Also Integers