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Okay, so toof.c (see this below variant of your DinkC code), now runs in DinkC; but how do we set, reset and test various bits within a DinkC integer using your code? I must be missing something here.

// This is a variant of toof's DinkC "simple do-while loop" DinkC code:
void binary()
{
	int &counter = &arg1;
	debug("toof: counter=&counter; status_bd=&status_bd");
	int &crap = &status_bd;
	// For my tests, I used &status_bd as the global variable.
	// Since it is accessible everywhere, it is not passed in.
loop:
	if(&counter > 0)
	{
		&crap / 2;
		// I assumed you meant to use the passed in value &counter
		// here, not the (apparently undeclared) value &count.
		&counter -= 1;
		debug("toof: counter=&counter; crap=&crap");
		wait(200);
		goto loop;
	}
	else
	{
		// I found the DinkC modulo math function in
		// the "DinkC Reference v4.0" help file! I also
		// changed the code to return a value via normal 
		// DinkC methods instead of the slightly more
		// efficient method (but *somewhat* less safe (?)
		// if more than one script is calling this code at
		// about the same time?) of using a global to
		// return the value.
		&crap = math_mod(&crap);
		return(&crap);
	}
}

For example, if we set &status_bd to 12 and pass in the value 8 as the &counter parameter, it would be nice if we got back some indication that the "bit 3 (value 8)" is set in &status_bd. We invoked "external("toof", "binary", 8);". Below are the results we find in DEBUG.TXT.

Dink:toof: counter=8; status_bd=12
Dink:toof: counter=7; crap=6
Dink:toof: counter=6; crap=3
Dink:toof: counter=5; crap=1
Dink:toof: counter=4; crap=0
Dink:toof: counter=3; crap=0
Dink:toof: counter=2; crap=0
Dink:toof: counter=1; crap=0
Dink:toof: counter=0; crap=0

If we do the same thing for &status_bd (setting it to 12) and invoke "" and then check "bit 3 (value 8)", we get results like those show below which tells us that bit 8 is set, as we would expect.

Dink:CHKBIT: do operation(-1) on bd=12(2: status_bd) using which=8)
Dink:CHKBIT: do operation(-1) using which=8; wrkbit=1073741824)
Dink:CHKBIT: op:-1 --> bs=12; which=8; wrkbit=536870912
Dink:CHKBIT: op:-1 --> bs=12; which=8; wrkbit=268435456
Dink:CHKBIT: op:-1 --> bs=12; which=8; wrkbit=134217728
Dink:CHKBIT: op:-1 --> bs=12; which=8; wrkbit=67108864
Dink:CHKBIT: op:-1 --> bs=12; which=8; wrkbit=33554432
Dink:CHKBIT: op:-1 --> bs=12; which=8; wrkbit=16777216
Dink:CHKBIT: op:-1 --> bs=12; which=8; wrkbit=8388608
Dink:CHKBIT: op:-1 --> bs=12; which=8; wrkbit=4194304
Dink:CHKBIT: op:-1 --> bs=12; which=8; wrkbit=2097152
Dink:CHKBIT: op:-1 --> bs=12; which=8; wrkbit=1048576
Dink:CHKBIT: op:-1 --> bs=12; which=8; wrkbit=524288
Dink:CHKBIT: op:-1 --> bs=12; which=8; wrkbit=262144
Dink:CHKBIT: op:-1 --> bs=12; which=8; wrkbit=131072
Dink:CHKBIT: op:-1 --> bs=12; which=8; wrkbit=65536
Dink:CHKBIT: op:-1 --> bs=12; which=8; wrkbit=32768
Dink:CHKBIT: op:-1 --> bs=12; which=8; wrkbit=16384
Dink:CHKBIT: op:-1 --> bs=12; which=8; wrkbit=8192
Dink:CHKBIT: op:-1 --> bs=12; which=8; wrkbit=4096
Dink:CHKBIT: op:-1 --> bs=12; which=8; wrkbit=2048
Dink:CHKBIT: op:-1 --> bs=12; which=8; wrkbit=1024
Dink:CHKBIT: op:-1 --> bs=12; which=8; wrkbit=512
Dink:CHKBIT: op:-1 --> bs=12; which=8; wrkbit=256
Dink:CHKBIT: op:-1 --> bs=12; which=8; wrkbit=128
Dink:CHKBIT: op:-1 --> bs=12; which=8; wrkbit=64
Dink:CHKBIT: op:-1 --> bs=12; which=8; wrkbit=32
Dink:CHKBIT: op:-1 --> bs=12; which=8; wrkbit=16
Dink:CHKBIT: op:-1 --> bs=12; which=8; wrkbit=8
Dink:CHKBIT: op:query --> bit 8 was found set in 12.
Dink:CHKBIT: done