c++ - Converting integer to a bit representation

Question

How can I convert a integer to its bit representation. I want to take an integer and return a vector that has contains 1's and 0's of the integer's bit representation.

I'm having a heck of a time trying to do this myself so I thought I would ask to see if there was a built in library function that could help.

Answer 1

Doesn't work with negatives.

vector<int> convert(int x) {
  vector<int> ret;
  while(x) {
    if (x&1)
      ret.push_back(1);
    else
      ret.push_back(0);
    x>>=1;  
  }
  reverse(ret.begin(),ret.end());
  return ret;
}