Compress Interleaved Bits Reverse Bit Spreading

Code

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>

uint8_t compress_bits(uint16_t val) {
    uint8_t reg = 0;
    for(int i = 0; i < 8; i++){
        uint8_t mask = (val & 1);
        reg = reg | (mask << i);
        val >>= 2;

    }
    return reg;
}

int main() {
    uint16_t val;
    scanf("%hu", &val);

    uint8_t result = compress_bits(val);
    printf("%u", result);
    return 0;
}

Solving Approach