Years ago, I cloned the Arduino IDE “bit” macros for use in a GCC program (for testing generic Arduino code on a different system). I dug them out recently for a work project, and decided to share them here. Maybe they will be useful to someone else. (And apologies for WordPress clobbering the ampersand and turning it to HTML. When I edit and view it, it looks good, then WordPress “helps” — even though I am using a Syntax Highlighter plugin specifically for code examples.)

#ifndef BITMACROS_H
#define BITMACROS_H
// Bit macros, based on Arduino standard.
// https://www.arduino.cc/reference/en/language/functions/bits-and-bytes/bit/
//
// x: the numeric variable to which to write.
// n: which bit of the number to write, starting at 0 for the least-significant (rightmost) bit.
// b: the value to write to the bit (0 or 1).
#define bit(n)              (1 << (n))
#define bitSet(x, n)        ((x) |= bit(n))
#define bitClear(x, n)      ((x) &= ~bit(n))
#define bitRead(x, n)       (((x) & bit(n)) !=0 )
#define bitWrite(x, n, b)   ((b) ? bitSet((x), (n)) : bitClear((x), (n)))
/* Verification tests:
bool showBits (uint32_t value, unsigned int bits)
{
    bool status;
    //printf ("showBits (%u, %u)\n", value, bits);
    if ((bits == 0) || (bits > sizeof(value)*8))
    {
        status = false;
    }
    else
    {
        // Must use signed to check against 0.
        for (int bit = (bits-1); bit >= 0; bit--)
        {
            printf ("%u", bitRead(value, bit));
        }
        printf ("\n");
    }
    return status;
}
int main()
{
    unsigned int value;
    // Test bit()
    for (unsigned int bit = 0; bit < 8; bit++)
    {
        printf ("bit(%u) = %u\n", bit, bit(bit));
    }
    printf ("\n");
    // Test bitSet()
    for (unsigned int bit = 0; bit < 8; bit++)
    {
        value = 0;
        printf ("bitSet(%u, %u) = ", value, bit);
        bitSet(value, bit);
        showBits (value, 8);
    }
    printf ("\n");
    // Test bitClear()
    for (unsigned int bit = 0; bit < 8; bit++)
    {
        value = 0xff;
        printf ("bitClear(%u, %u) = ", value, bit);
        bitClear (value, bit);
        showBits (value, 8);
    }
    printf ("\n");
    // Test bitRead()
    value = 0b10101111;
    showBits (value, 8);
    for (unsigned int bit = 0; bit < 8; bit++)
    {
        printf ("bitRead(%u, %u) = %u\n", value, bit, bitRead (value, bit));
    }
    printf ("\n");
    // Test bitWrite - 1
    value = 0x00;
    showBits (value, 8);
    for (unsigned int bit = 0; bit < 8; bit++)
    {
        printf ("bitWrite(%u, %u, 1) = ", value, bit);
        bitWrite (value, bit, 1);
        showBits (value, 8);
    }
    // Test bitWrite - 0
    showBits (value, 8);
    for (unsigned int bit = 0; bit < 8; bit++)
    {
        printf ("bitWrite(%u, %u, 0) = ", value, bit);
        bitWrite (value, bit, 0);
        showBits (value, 8);
    }
    printf ("\n");
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
*/
#endif // BITMACROS_H
// End of BitMacros.h