Getting at the bits of a 32-bit integer

[Erik Max Francis]

Phil Frost wrote:

> Then you have paid the cost of a bool, and then some.

If someone's interested in using a bitfield to store flags, they're
obviously interested in more than one bool!  Now you're talking about
one long vs. a list and n bools.

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