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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>bit bashing</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="bit-bang.html" title="bit bang"/><link rel="next" href="bit-bucket.html" title="bit bucket"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bit bashing</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bit-bang.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bit-bucket.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bit-bashing"/><dt xmlns="" id="bit-bashing"><b>bit bashing</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> (alt.: <span class="firstterm">bit diddling</span> or
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<a href="bit-twiddling.html"><i class="glossterm">bit twiddling</i></a>) Term used to describe any of several
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kinds of low-level programming characterized by manipulation of
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<a href="bit.html"><i class="glossterm">bit</i></a>, <a href="../F/flag.html"><i class="glossterm">flag</i></a>,
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<a href="../N/nybble.html"><i class="glossterm">nybble</i></a>, and other smaller-than-character-sized
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pieces of data; these include low-level device control, encryption
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algorithms, checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some
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flavors of graphics programming (see <a href="bitblt.html"><i class="glossterm">bitblt</i></a>), and
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assembler/compiler code generation. May connote either tedium or a real
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technical challenge (more usually the former). “<span class="quote">The command decoding
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for the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the
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control registers still has bugs.</span>” See also
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<a href="../M/mode-bit.html"><i class="glossterm">mode bit</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bit-bang.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bit-bucket.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bit bang </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bit bucket</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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