May 2003
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bitand operator — Bitwise and operator
and-expr := and-expr & equality-expr | and-expr bitand equality-expr
The bitwise and operator requires integer or enumeration operands. It performs the usual arithmetic conversions, then does an and operation on pairs of bits in the operands, resulting in an integer.
The bitand keyword is
interchangeable with the &
token.
unsigned bitmask = 0xFFFF;
bitmask = bitmask& ~0x7E; // bitmask becomes 0xFF81and, and_eq, bitor, compl, expression, xor, Chapter
3, <ciso646>