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Re:Low Level Bit Hacks You Absolutely Must Know by daemin on Friday May 11, 2018 @10:35AM (#17047571)
Nope, people actually just write the bit setting code. It's simpler and also I haven't found a good generic bit flags class that works as you intend.
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Re:Low Level Bit Hacks You Absolutely Must Know by slededit on Friday May 11, 2018 @03:30PM (#17050202)
What about C++ bitfields? Not a library but a language extension. A lot of code I used has migrated to that.
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Re:Low Level Bit Hacks You Absolutely Must Know by daemin on Monday May 14, 2018 @06:59AM (#17064374)
Normal C++ bitfields? Sometimes you get that inside classes in the form of "bool x : 1; bool y : 1;" etc. But that's much harder to use as far as function parameters go, so old school bitmasks are used for that.
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