The bitand macro, which is part of <iso646.h>, is a convenient object-like macro name that expands to the & operator. The macro was added in Normative Addendum 1 in an effort to provide support for international character sets that might not have the & symbols.

Synopsis

#include <iso646.h>
#define bitand &

Description

The bitand object-like macro expands to the & operator.

Example

#include <iso646.h>

int main ()
{
    if ((2 bitand 2) and (1 bitand 1))
        return 1;
    return 0;
}