Java • Re: Java Help with bitwise operators

-- What is gained by doing this AND?

Nothing really, but it's legitimate as defensive programming practice, or for clarity that one is using an 8-bit entity.

In C, you might do this as "char" may be signed or unsigned, and with signed chars the & 0xFF is needed to remove unwanted sign extension. Thankfully the compiler automatically removes the "& 0xFF" when it can prove that it is pointless.

Statistics: Posted by jahboater — Wed Jul 31, 2024 12:02 pm

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