Detect Circular Pattern Match

Code

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

uint8_t is_circular_match(uint16_t reg, uint16_t target) {
    // Your code here
    uint8_t match = 0;

    for(int i=0; i<16; ++i)
    {
        uint8_t left_bit = reg >> 15;
        reg = (reg <<1) | (left_bit);
        if(reg == target)
        {
            match = 1;
            break;
        }
    }
    return match;
}

int main() {
    uint16_t reg, target;
    scanf("%hu %hu", &reg, &target);
    printf("%hhu", is_circular_match(reg, target));
    return 0;
}

Solving Approach