What does '<<' mean in C?

Question

what does this mean?

#define WS_RECURSIVE    (1 << 0)

I understand that it will define WS_Recursive (1 << 0) but w

Answer 1

This is a bit shifting to the left. So 1 << 0 is actually 1. It is usually used this way when you want to define some flags, each of them is one bit set, for example:

#define FLAG1 (1 << 0)
#define FLAG2 (1 << 1)
#define FLAG3 (1 << 2)
#define FLAG4 (1 << 3)