c - The neighbors in Gray code

Question

Is there any algorithm that I can use to find the neighbors in Gray code?

For small numbers is just fine to write the entire table, but if I have a number like 010 110 is a bit to much to write the entire grey code table with 6 numbers.

Answer 1

Copied shamelessly from Wikipedia:

/*
        The purpose of this function is to convert an unsigned
        binary number to reflected binary Gray code.

        The operator >> is shift right. The operator ^ is exclusive or.
*/
unsigned int binaryToGray(unsigned int num)
{
        return (num >> 1) ^ num;
}

/*
        The purpose of this function is to convert a reflected binary
        Gray code number to a binary number.
*/
unsigned int grayToBinary(unsigned int num)
{
    unsigned int mask;
    for (mask = num >> 1; mask != 0; mask = mask >> 1)
    {
        num = num ^ mask;
    }
    return num;
}

And now, the requested code, using the mask to limit the number of bits to 6:

unsigned int nextGray(unsigned int num)
{
    return binaryToGray((grayToBinary(num) + 1) & 0x3F);
}

unsigned int prevGray(unsigned int num)
{
    return binaryToGray((grayToBinary(num) - 1) & 0x3F);
}