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Apparently I had a high tolerance for pain (programming.dev)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Context please, what is this bit shifting shenanigans that im witnessing right now?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

PA_ prefixed functions seem to be from palibds, which is a Nintendo DS homebrew development library.

DS being a constrained device it is logical that whoever wrote this code packed multiple byte-sized info into a bigger 16-bit short and using bit shifting to extract a specific byte