What's "or-ed" means? (from --debug, man

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 14:07:33 +0800, eelchen  said:

> Per my poor English that I have a question after read the man page about --debug. Could someone kindly explain what is "or-ed" means?

An bitwise adjunction.  To express this in C you do a

 c = a | b

So if you have the flags 0x01 and 0x02 the result is 0x03.

  Werner

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