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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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