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From: "Chuck" <chuck@ghost.co.nz>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics
Subject: Re: The Passmore Tutorial
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:36:52 +1200
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Andrew Murray wrote in message <379CE2B7.4DFF96A5@which.net>...
>Hello one&all,
>
>In the Passmore tutorial the is a line I do not understand. It is in the
>
>LoadTexture Function and the line is:
>
>if((tim1.pmode>>3)&0x01)
>
>Can anyone enlighten me coz I am stuck tight right now. I NEED TO
>KNOW!!!!!!


Its testing the 3rd bit of the pmode value..  I don't have my docs near me
to tell you what exactly that tells you about the tim.

why on earth they're not just going

if (time1.pmode&0x4)

I dunno, but it would probably get optimized by the compiler to remove the
shift.

..belial..