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bit bashing
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bit diddling
(Also "bit diddling" or bit twiddling). Any of several
kinds of low-level programming characterised by manipulation
of bit, flag, nibble, and other
smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data. These include
low-level device control, encryption algorithms, checksum and
error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavours of
graphics programming (see bitblt), and assembler/compiler
code generation. May connote either tedium or a real
technical challenge (more usually the former). "The command
decoding for the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the
bit-bashing for the control registers still has bugs." See
also bit bang, mode bit.
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bit bashing
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n.
(alt.: bit diddling or bit twiddling) Term used to describe any of
several kinds of low-level programming characterized by manipulation of {
bit}, flag, nybble, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of
data; these include low-level device control, encryption algorithms,
checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavors of
graphics programming (see bitblt), and assembler/compiler code
generation. May connote either tedium or a real technical challenge (more
usually the former). “The command decoding for the new tape driver looks
pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the control registers still has bugs.”
See also mode bit.
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