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

[Walt Mankowski]

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On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 02:09:42PM +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 14:07:33 +0800, eelchen  said:
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> > Per my poor English that I have a question after read the man page abou=
t --debug. Could someone kindly explain what is "or-ed" means?
>=20
> An bitwise adjunction.  To express this in C you do a
>=20
>  c =3D a | b
>=20
> So if you have the flags 0x01 and 0x02 the result is 0x03.

This is also called a "logical or" in English since a bit in c in set
if either the corresponding bit in a or b is set.  I'd probably spell
the past tense "or'd", but as far as I know there isn't a standard
spelling.

Walt


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