I have two variables that I am trying to logically 'AND' in a bitwise fashion.  This does not work correctly if one of the variables is initialized to 0xffffffff.

ie if $field and $flags are two variables:

$flags = 0xffffffff;
$field = 0x01;

($flags & $field)? $str = "TRUE" : $str = "FALSE";

echo "$str <br>";

This prints 'FALSE' instead of 'True'!!  I tried debugging it with different values and it seems that if the highest bit is set then the it does the wrong thing.  ie. if $flags is instead initialized to 0x7fffffff then everything works fine!

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Thanks,
Murtaza

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