diff --git a/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/memory/DirectPostingsFormat.java b/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/memory/DirectPostingsFormat.java
index 47902067127..4d73eaa3e1b 100644
--- a/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/memory/DirectPostingsFormat.java
+++ b/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/memory/DirectPostingsFormat.java
@@ -860,7 +860,7 @@ public final class DirectPostingsFormat extends PostingsFormat {
         // TODO: implement reuse
         // it's hairy!
 
-        if ((flags & PostingsEnum.POSITIONS) >= PostingsEnum.POSITIONS) {
+        if (PostingsEnum.featureRequested(flags, PostingsEnum.POSITIONS)) {
           if (!hasPos) {
             return null;
           }
@@ -1454,7 +1454,7 @@ public final class DirectPostingsFormat extends PostingsFormat {
       public PostingsEnum postings(Bits liveDocs, PostingsEnum reuse, int flags) {
         // TODO: implement reuse
         // it's hairy!
-        if ((flags & PostingsEnum.POSITIONS) >= PostingsEnum.POSITIONS) {
+        if (PostingsEnum.featureRequested(flags, PostingsEnum.POSITIONS)) {
           if (!hasPos) {
             return null;
           }
diff --git a/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/memory/MemoryPostingsFormat.java b/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/memory/MemoryPostingsFormat.java
index 7625f5e5f70..ecc70cdfbf7 100644
--- a/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/memory/MemoryPostingsFormat.java
+++ b/lucene/codecs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/memory/MemoryPostingsFormat.java
@@ -829,7 +829,7 @@ public final class MemoryPostingsFormat extends PostingsFormat {
     @Override
     public PostingsEnum postings(Bits liveDocs, PostingsEnum reuse, int flags) {
 
-      if ((flags & PostingsEnum.POSITIONS) >= PostingsEnum.POSITIONS) {
+      if (PostingsEnum.featureRequested(flags, PostingsEnum.POSITIONS)) {
         if (field.getIndexOptions().compareTo(IndexOptions.DOCS_AND_FREQS_AND_POSITIONS) < 0) {
           return null;
         }
diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/compressing/CompressingTermVectorsReader.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/compressing/CompressingTermVectorsReader.java
index 4f986aa74f7..7f2e0f7c2d0 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/compressing/CompressingTermVectorsReader.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/compressing/CompressingTermVectorsReader.java
@@ -937,7 +937,7 @@ public final class CompressingTermVectorsReader extends TermVectorsReader implem
     @Override
     public final PostingsEnum postings(Bits liveDocs, PostingsEnum reuse, int flags) throws IOException {
 
-      if ((flags & PostingsEnum.POSITIONS) >= PostingsEnum.POSITIONS) {
+      if (PostingsEnum.featureRequested(flags, PostingsEnum.POSITIONS)) {
         if (positions == null && startOffsets == null)
           return null;
       }
diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene50/Lucene50PostingsReader.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene50/Lucene50PostingsReader.java
index 6a710a6e69b..4fe53a998bd 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene50/Lucene50PostingsReader.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/lucene50/Lucene50PostingsReader.java
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ public final class Lucene50PostingsReader extends PostingsReaderBase {
   @Override
   public PostingsEnum postings(FieldInfo fieldInfo, BlockTermState termState, Bits liveDocs, PostingsEnum reuse, int flags) throws IOException {
 
-    if ((flags & PostingsEnum.POSITIONS) < PostingsEnum.POSITIONS) {
+    if (PostingsEnum.featureRequested(flags, PostingsEnum.POSITIONS) == false) {
       BlockDocsEnum docsEnum;
       if (reuse instanceof BlockDocsEnum) {
         docsEnum = (BlockDocsEnum) reuse;
diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/FreqProxFields.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/FreqProxFields.java
index 07887c2692e..2ffbbb19d99 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/FreqProxFields.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/FreqProxFields.java
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ class FreqProxFields extends Fields {
         throw new IllegalArgumentException("liveDocs must be null");
       }
 
-      if ((flags & PostingsEnum.POSITIONS) >= PostingsEnum.POSITIONS) {
+      if (PostingsEnum.featureRequested(flags, PostingsEnum.POSITIONS)) {
         FreqProxPostingsEnum posEnum;
 
         if (!terms.hasProx) {