Why doesn't this line contain val?

[Ivan-Malin]

I was copy-pasting some stuff for home python project and found some strange line.
As I undarstand it, this line should contains "val" as the base of the message. And only than it should be transfered val->bval->buf (message), shouldn't it?

Something like

• bval = val & 0xff;
  or
• bval = val;
• bval &= 0xff;

simulavr/src/cmd/gdbserver.cpp

Line 870 in 1be6dee

bval &= 0xff;