Bit masking is “useful” to use when you want to store (and subsequently extract) different data within a single data value. An example application I’ve used before is imagine you were storing colour RGB values in a 16 bit value. So something that looks like this: You could then use bit masking to retrieve the … Read more
On the PHP documentation about JSON it mentions the word bitmask. Wikipedia has it defined as a mask. I don’t understand either bitmask or mask or how they are useful. Can some one explain these terms using layman’s terms and no jargon?
I am fairly new to C programming, and I encountered bit masking. Can someone explain to me the general concept and function of bit masking? Examples are much appreciated.