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Date:      Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:51:39 +0200
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r227812 - head/lib/libc/string
Message-ID:  <4ECBC50B.2020705@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <8B1C6EE4-A351-44A6-AC8A-DC53779CD380@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201111220250.pAM2oPWC070856@svn.freebsd.org> <CAMBSHm8HfW-XTSk9zQda4vDmbrzyEG_vnydb5JZyHaNh2rF4gw@mail.gmail.com> <20111122210422.E8674@besplex.bde.org> <8B1C6EE4-A351-44A6-AC8A-DC53779CD380@FreeBSD.org>

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on 22/11/2011 16:20 David Chisnall said the following:
> the use of | tells a human reading the code that the order is unimportant

I think that it tells that we are dealing with bit flags, not with logical
operations.  Which would be a lie^W^W an incorrect hint in this case (both to
humans and compilers).

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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