Add zand, zor, zxor, znot, zbtest, zsplit, and the newly introduced ztrunc

Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se>

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+.TH ZTRUNC 3 libzahl
+.SH NAME
+ztrunc - Truncate a big integer
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.nf
+#include <zahl.h>
+
+void ztrunc(z_t \fIa\fP, z_t \fIb\fP, size_t \fIbits\fP);
+.fi
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B ztrunc
+makes a truncated copy of
+.I b
+and stores it in
+.I a .
+Only the first
+.I bits
+from
+.I b
+and
+.IR b 's
+sign is copied to
+.I a .
+.P
+It is safe to call
+.B zsplit
+with non-unique parameters.
+.SH RATIONALE
+This was useful for improving the performance of
+.BR zsplit (3).
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR zand (3),
+.BR zor (3),
+.BR zxor (3),
+.BR znot (3),
+.BR zlsh (3),
+.BR zrsh (3),
+.BR zsplit (3),
+.BR zbits (3)