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Re: What is | in a sub call?

From Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c++
Subject Re: What is | in a sub call?
Date 2019-12-28 10:42 +1300
Message-ID <h6nc5mFctnvU4@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References <qu5thi$n7g$1@dont-email.me>

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On 28/12/2019 10:36, T wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1387064/how-to-get-the-error-message-from-the-error-code-returned-by-getlasterror
> 
> size_t size = FormatMessageA(FORMAT_MESSAGE_ALLOCATE_BUFFER |
> FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM | FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS,
>                                    NULL, errorMessageID,
> MAKELANGID(LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_DEFAULT), (LPSTR)&messageBuffer, 0, NULL);
> 
> 
> What is the | do in
> 
> FORMAT_MESSAGE_ALLOCATE_BUFFER | FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM |
> FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS
> 
> ?
> 
> Is it bitwise OR'ing the three constants?

Yes.

-- 
Ian.

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What is | in a sub call? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2019-12-27 13:36 -0800
  Re: What is | in a sub call? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2019-12-28 10:42 +1300
    Re: What is | in a sub call? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2019-12-27 13:56 -0800
  Re: What is | in a sub call? red floyd <no.spam@its.invalid> - 2019-12-27 15:36 -0800
    Re: What is | in a sub call? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2019-12-27 16:43 -0800
    Re: What is | in a sub call? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-12-27 20:52 -0500
      Re: What is | in a sub call? red floyd <no.spam@its.invalid> - 2020-01-02 16:07 -0800

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