What are these bitwise operations doing? [closed]

Question

I found a snippet of code on the PHP manual which packs 64 bit integers. APparently this is necessary because pack() always treats numbers as 32 bit integers even on 64 bit architectures.

I don't understand what is happening with the use of $left and $right as well has notation like >>32. Searching that didn't find anything useful. Can anyone explain what is happening in this script?

<?php 
$big = 5000000000; 

$left = 0xffffffff00000000; 
$right = 0x00000000ffffffff; 

$l = ($big & $left) >>32; 
$r = $big & $right; 

$good = pack('NN', $l, $r);

Answer 1

It's taking a 64 bit number

$big = 5000000000; 

Using masks for the top 32 bits

$left = 0xffffffff00000000; 

and bottom 32 bits

$right = 0x00000000ffffffff; 

Selecting the top 32 bits and shifting the value to a 32 bit value

$l = ($big & $left) >>32; 

Selecting the bottom 32 bits

$r = $big & $right; 

and finally packs the 2 32 bit values into 64 bits

$good = pack('NN', $l, $r);