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--- Bitwise operations on integers.
-- \n\n
-- Lua does not provide bitwise logical operations. Since they are often useful
-- for low-level network communication, Reuben Thomas' BitLib
-- (http://luaforge.net/projects/bitlib) for Lua has been integrated into NSE.
-- The arguments to the bitwise operation functions should be integers. The
-- number of bits available for logical operations depends on the data type used
-- to represent Lua numbers--this is typically 8-byte IEEE floats (double),
-- which give 53 bits (the size of the mantissa).
-- \n\n
-- This implies that the bitwise operations won't work (as expected) for numbers
-- larger than 10^14. You can use them with 32-bit wide numbers without any
-- problems. Operations involving 64-bit wide numbers, however, may not return
-- the expected result.
-- \n\n
-- The logical operations start with "b" to avoid
-- clashing with reserved words; although xor isn't a
-- reserved word, it seemed better to use bxor for
-- consistency.
--
-- @author Reuben Thomas
-- @copyright BSD License
module "bit"
--- Cast a to an internally-used integer type.
-- @param a Number.
function bit.cast(a)
--- Return the one's complement of a.
-- @param a Number.
-- @return The one's complement of a.
function bit.bnot(a)
--- Returns the bitwise and of all its arguments.
-- @param ... A variable number of Numbers to and.
-- @return The anded result.
function bit.band(...)
--- Returns the bitwise or of all its arguments.
-- @param ... A variable number of Numbers to or.
-- @return The ored result.
function bit.bor(...)
--- Returns the bitwise exclusive or of all its arguments.
-- @param ... A variable number of Numbers to exclusive or.
-- @return The exclusive ored result.
function bit.bxor(...)
--- Returns a left shifted by b places.
-- @param a Number to perform the shift on.
-- @param b Number of shifts.
function bit.lshift(a, b)
--- Returns a right shifted by b places.
-- @param a Number to perform the shift on.
-- @param b Number of shifts.
function bit.rshift(a, b)
--- Returns a arithmetically shifted by b places.
-- @param a Number to perform the shift on.
-- @param b Number of shifts.
function bit.arshift(a, b)
--- Returns the integer remainder of a divided by b.
-- @param a Dividend.
-- @param b Divisor.
function bit.mod(a, b)