I have encountered code like
if (flagsDef)
flagsTainted |= flagsUsed;
please assist in knowing the meaning of the operator used.
I have encountered code like if (flagsDef) flagsTainted |= flagsUsed; please assist in knowing
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I have encountered code like
if (flagsDef)
flagsTainted |= flagsUsed;
please assist in knowing the meaning of the operator used.
The statement:
is shorthand for:
which uses the binary/bitwise OR operator
|.The code is manipulating a flag variable, which is keeping state information by setting bits in the variable
flagsTainted.For more information about bitwise manipulation, the wikipedia article is pretty good.