Glossary coding Term Page

Flag

A bit you turn on/off to represent state

flag #coding#c

Related Concepts

Bit Bit Mask Shift Operation

Core Idea

Flag is A bit you turn on/off to represent state. It usually makes the most sense alongside Bit, Bit Mask, Shift Operation.

Why It Matters Here

Mathbong reuses this term across c posts as shared vocabulary.

Posts Mentioning This Concept

[C Series 18] Building Low-Level Intuition with Bitwise Operations Manipulate bits directly to internalize flags, masks, and shift operators while developing hardware-aware thinking.[C 시리즈 18편] 비트 연산으로 저수준 감각 키우기 비트를 직접 다루며 플래그, 마스크, 쉬프트 연산의 흐름을 체화하고 하드웨어 친화적 사고를 익힙니다.