(Also "bit diddling" or ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=bit twiddling">bit twiddling). Any of several kinds of low-level programming characterised by manipulation of ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=bit">bit, ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=flag">flag, ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=nibble">nibble, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data. These include low-level device control, encryption algorithms, checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavours of graphics programming (see ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=bitblt">bitblt), and assembler/compiler code generation. May connote either tedium or a real technical challenge (more usually the former). "The command decoding for the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the control registers still has bugs." See also ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=bit bang">bit bang, ref="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=mode bit">mode bit.

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