Add bitrotate function (issue #11592) (#33937)

NEWS.md

@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ New library functions
 * `include` now accepts an optional `mapexpr` first argument to transform the parsed
   expressions before they are evaluated ([#34595]).
 * New function `bitreverse` for reversing the order of bits in a fixed-width integer ([#34791]).
+* New function `bitrotate(x, k)` for rotating the bits in a fixed-width integer ([#33937]).
 
 New library features
 --------------------

base/exports.jl

@@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ export
     big,
     binomial,
     bitreverse,
+    bitrotate,
     bswap,
     cbrt,
     ceil,

base/int.jl

@@ -452,6 +452,35 @@ for to in BitInteger_types, from in (BitInteger_types..., Bool)
     end
 end
 
+## integer bitwise rotations ##
+
+"""
+    bitrotate(x::Base.BitInteger, k::Integer)
+
+`bitrotate(x, k)` implements bitwise rotation.
+It returns the value of `x` with its bits rotated left `k` times.
+A negative value of `k` will rotate to the right instead.
+
+!!! compat "Julia 1.5"
+    This function requires Julia 1.5 or later.
+
+```jldoctest
+julia> bitrotate(UInt8(114), 2)
+0xc9
+
+julia> bitstring(bitrotate(0b01110010, 2))
+"11001001"
+
+julia> bitstring(bitrotate(0b01110010, -2))
+"10011100"
+
+julia> bitstring(bitrotate(0b01110010, 8))
+"01110010"
+```
+"""
+bitrotate(x::T, k::Integer) where {T <: BitInteger} =
+    (x << ((sizeof(T) << 3 - 1) & k)) | (x >>> ((sizeof(T) << 3 - 1) & -k))
+
 # @doc isn't available when running in Core at this point.
 # Tuple syntax for documentation two function signatures at the same time
 # doesn't work either at this point.

doc/src/base/math.md

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ Base.denominator
 Base.:(<<)
 Base.:(>>)
 Base.:(>>>)
+Base.bitrotate
 Base.:(:)
 Base.range
 Base.OneTo

test/int.jl

@@ -190,6 +190,22 @@ end
         end
     end
 end
+
+@testset "bit rotations" begin
+    val1 = 0b01100011
+    @test 0b00011011 === bitrotate(val1, 3)
+    @test 0b01101100 === bitrotate(val1, -3)
+    @test val1 === bitrotate(val1, 0)
+
+    for T in Base.BitInteger_types
+        @test val1 === bitrotate(val1, sizeof(T) * 8) === bitrotate(val1, sizeof(T) * -8)
+    end
+
+    val2 = 0xabcd
+    @test 0x5e6d == bitrotate(val2, 3)
+    @test 0xb579 == bitrotate(val2, -3)
+end
+
 @testset "widen/widemul" begin
     @test widen(UInt8(3)) === UInt16(3)
     @test widen(UInt16(3)) === UInt32(3)