NAME 
lib/bitlib.pir - bitwise operations library
DESCRIPTION
bitlib is a library for Lua 5.1 that provides bitwise operations.
See original on http://luaforge.net/projects/bitlib/
The library provides the constant bit.bits that gives the number of bits that can be used in bitwise operations,
and the following functions:
Functions
bit.cast (a)- cast
ato the internally-used integer type bit.bnot (a)- returns the one's complement of
a bit.band (a, ...)- returns the bitwise and of the w's
bit.bor (a, ...)- returns the bitwise or of the w's
bit.bxor (a, ...)- returns the bitwise exclusive or of the w's
bit.lshift (a, b)- returns
ashifted leftbplaces bit.rshift (a, b)- returns
ashifted rightbplaces bit.arshift (a, b)- returns
ashifted arithmetically rightbplaces
AUTHORS
Francois Perrad
