Bitwise XOR java long
I am using Oracle Java 7.51 on Ubuntu 12.04, and trying to do this long a = 0x0000000080000001 ^ 0x4065DE839A6F89EEL; System.out.println("result "+ Long.toHexString(a)); Output: result bf9a217c1a6f89ef But I was expecting result to be 4065de831a6f89ef , since ^ operator is a bitwise XOR in Java. Which part of Java specification am I reading wrong? You need an L at the end of the first integer literal: long a = 0x0000000080000001L ^ 0x4065DE839A6F89EEL; Otherwise it is an int literal, not a long (the leading zeroes being ignored). The ^ operator then promotes the first operand value from