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