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Masking- All you need to know in order to understand what masking is in a nutshell
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A mask defines what mask you want to keep, and which bits you want to clear. Masking is the act of applying a mask to a value. This is accomplished by:

  1. Bitwise ANDing in order to extract a subset of the bits in the value
  2. Bitwise ORing in order to set a subset of the bits in the value
  3. Bitwise XORing in order to toggle a subset of the bits in the value
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