More for bitfields

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Sun Jul 4 12:07:15 PDT 2010


bearophile wrote:
> This blog post shows possible ideas to make std.bitmanip.bitfields more complete:
> http://potential-lang.org/2010/07/02/quasi-quoting-ascii-art-to-define-data-structures/
> 
> An example of the ideas:
> struct IntDesc_t {
>   ...
>   immutable IST : 3 = 0;
>   immutable Unused0 : 5 = 0;
>   immutable type : 4 = 0b1110;
>   immutable Unused1 : 1 = 0b0;
>   dpl : 2;
>   p : 1;
> ....
> 
> That means allowing the fields to have an optional initialization value. And they can be flagged to be immutable too :-) Bit fields that can't change are common.
> 
> Bye,
> bearophile

Sounds good. Did you have a chance to enter that into bugzilla?

Andrei


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