Bit fields (flags) They're the most efficient way of representing something whose state is defined by several "yes or no" properties. ACLs are a good example; if you have let's say 4 discrete permissions (read, write, execute, change policy), it's better to store this in 1 byte rather than waste 4. These can be mapped to enumeration types in many languages for added convenience. Communication over ports/sockets Always involves checksums, parity, stop bits, flow control algorithms, and so on, which usually depend on the logic values of individual bytes as opposed to numeric values, since the medium may only be capable of transmitting one bit at a time. Compression, Encryption Both of these are heavily dependent on bitwise algorithms. Look at the deflate algorithm for an example - everything is in bits, not bytes. Finite State Machines I'm speaking primarily of the kind embedded in some piece of hardware, although they can be found in software too. These are combinatorial in nature - they might literally be getting "compiled" down to a bunch of logic gates, so they have to be expressed as AND, OR, NOT, etc. Graphics There's hardly enough space here to get into every area where these operators are used in graphics programming. XOR (or ^) is particularly interesting here because applying the same input a second time will undo the first. Older GUIs used to rely on this for selection highlighting and other overlays, in order to eliminate the need for costly redraws. They're still useful in slow graphics protocols (i.e. remote desktop).

这些只是我最先想到的几个例子——这不是一个详尽的清单。

您可以使用它们作为一种快速而不常用的散列数据的方法。

int a = 1230123;
int b = 1234555;
int c = 5865683;
int hash = a ^ b ^ c;

我很惊讶，没有人为互联网时代选择一个显而易见的答案。计算子网的有效网络地址。

http://www.topwebhosts.org/tools/netmask.php

Base64编码就是一个例子。Base64编码用于将二进制数据表示为通过电子邮件系统(和其他目的)发送的可打印字符。Base64编码将一系列8位字节转换为6位字符查找索引。位操作，移位，'ing， 'ing, not'ing对于实现Base64编码和解码所需的位操作非常有用。

当然，这只是无数例子中的一个。

我的问题在现实世界中是有用的 只响应第一个WM_KEYDOWN通知?

当在windows C api中使用WM_KEYDOWN消息时，第30位指定前一个键的状态。如果在发送消息之前键为down，则值为1;如果键为up，则值为0

& =和: 屏蔽掉特定的位。 您正在定义应该显示的特定位 或者不显示。0x0 & x将清除字节中的所有位，而0xFF不会改变x。 0x0F将显示较低位置的位。

转换: 要将较短的变量转换为具有位标识的较长的变量，必须调整位，因为int类型中的-1是0xFFFFFFFF，而long类型中的-1是0xffffffffffffffffff。为了保护 转换后应用掩码的标识。

| =或 位设置。如果已经设置了位，则位将独立设置。许多数据结构(位字段)有IS_HSET = 0, IS_VSET = 1这样的标志，可以独立设置。 要设置标志，您应用IS_HSET | IS_VSET(在C和汇编中，这是非常方便阅读的)

^ = XOR 找出相同或不同的部分。

~ =不 比特翻转。

可以证明，所有可能的局部位操作都可以通过这些操作来实现。 如果你愿意，你可以通过位操作来实现ADD指令。

以下是一些妙招:

http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~wnoise/base2.html http://www.jjj.de/bitwizardry/bitwizardrypage.html