On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:01:45 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote: > > Consider: > > byte c = a | b; > > Say you already know min_a, max_a, min_b, and max_b. How do you compute > min_c and max_c? I thought of it for a bit and it seems quite tricky. > > > Thanks, > > Andrei
It seems like it would use the lowest minimum and the highest maximum of the two... that's what I personally would find most natural, given the semantics of bitwise OR, but maybe I'm just way off base.
