To encode these bits, the engineer decided to bitwise OR the destination byte with 2 raised to a particular power representing the bit position. "Bad approach, I know"
It's only a bad approach because there is no "to the power of" operator in C. Otherwise it's fine I think - I would expect a decent compiler in any language would treat "2**3" and "1<<3" as identical (when 2 was a numerical constant)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
