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    qn

    can anyone tell me what are these two lines for:
    kdeltas = kstates ^ buttons; //
    kstates = buttons;

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    ^ is the symbol for binary xor. kdeltas is equal to kstates where a bit is inverted if that bit in buttons is on. the second statement just assigns buttons to kstates


    In other words:
    buttons is a set of bits, like any integer is a set of bits. Somewhere your program set buttons as something so that the program could later specify the states to trigger.

    kstates is also a set of bits, where each bit is a state of true or false. when xor'ed with buttons, some states in kstates can be switched to their opposite

    kdeltas just stores the value produced by kstates

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