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    Article - Karma, Dharma and Somesuch

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    Originally written by KernelKnowledge12:
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    Originally written by silver harloe:
    but a "flag" is a bit. 0 or 1.
    Only in computer engineering. In computer programming, "flag" means any variable that relates to a boolean value (although most programmers extend the meaning of the variable). This variable may be a bit, or even a 64 bit integer (though this would be stupid).
    I'm aware you can waste space storing flags. I meant in terms of range of value, not in terms of how it is stored. a long long to store a flag might not be such a bad thing if you have, say, 64 flags. but for compiler/cross-platform compatibility I'd stick with 32 flags per int.

    too bad BoA Editor is misusing the term, though. more and more bad knowledge being spread around frown
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