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fanf2 on June 17, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: GCC should warn about 2^16 and 2^32 and 2^64

Flag bits should be combined with | not ^

inlined on June 17, 2019 [–]

you do all your binary arithmetic with “or”, not “and” or “xor”? XOR is certainly less common than the other two but had its place.

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