Quote Originally Posted by h3ro View Post
Would it be possible to blitt line by line instead of pixel by pixel using the mentioned operators? From reading the article it looks like it, but I am not sure on how. Could someone please explain a bit or tell me what I need to read up on?
No, because a "line" is an abstract notion. It is a sequence of pixels. The bitwise operators AND and OR operate only on fundamental quantities like char, short, or int.

So "blitting a line" is synonymous with blitting every pixel in the line.