bit diddling

B b

Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA

Definitions of bit diddling words

abbreviation Technical meaning of BIT DIDDLING bit bashing 3
noun Definition of bit diddling in Technology (Also "bit diddling" or bit twiddling). Any of several kinds of low-level programming characterised by manipulation of bit, flag, nibble, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data. These include low-level device control, encryption algorithms, checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavours of graphics programming (see bitblt), and assembler/compiler code generation. May connote either tedium or a real technical challenge (more usually the former). "The command decoding for the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the control registers still has bugs." See also bit bang, mode bit. 1

See all 2 definitions of bit diddling

Information block about the term

Parts of speech for Bit diddling

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

Full grammatical hierarchy of Bit diddling

See also

All definitions of bit diddling

Was this page helpful?

Yes No

Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page

Tell us why?