17.2. The bitset
Type
In § 4.8 (p. 152) we covered the built-in operators that treat an integral operand as a collection of bits. The standard library defines the bitset
class to make it easier to use bit operations and possible to deal with collections of bits that are larger than the longest integral type. The bitset
class is defined in the bitset
header.
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