I worked with bitmasks(a while back) to write a decoder for GRIB, a binary format for weather data. The utility of a bitmask in this context seems much more obvious. It allows you to extract individual bits from a given byte of data. There is NO other way you can do this because processors do not handle anything under 1 byte.
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I worked with bitmasks(a while back) to write a decoder for GRIB, a binary format for weather data. The utility of a bitmask in this context seems much more obvious. It allows you to extract individual bits from a given byte of data. There is NO other way you can do this because processors do not handle anything under 1 byte.