You seem to be worried that writing to part of a structure somehow "dirties" the rest so it's no longer thread-safe. That's not how it works, a structure is really just some data laid out contiguously ...

I was wondering if there was a way to "catch" the bits that were discarded after doing a left or right shift on (specifically) an 8-bit char.<BR><BR>And after "catching" those bits, wrapping them ...