bit fields

[Bruce Carneal]

On Sunday, 8 October 2023 at 15:52:34 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
> On Sunday, 8 October 2023 at 08:22:20 UTC, Dmitry Ponyatov 
> wrote:
>>> The spec PR was never merged:
>>> https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/3190
>>
>> Is any chance that a few years later D will adopt packed 
>> union/structured with bit fields, slicing and formatting 
>> (Erlang-like maybe) ?
>>
>> I see D can be intensively used in embedded and telecom 
>> application, where bit ops is definetely required.
>
> Same

Do you have issues with the earlier alternative?

https://dlang.org/phobos/std_bitmanip.html#bitfields


I use and like this one quite a bit.  The new bitfield variant 
*might* be important for C interop?  I'm not in embedded 
development at the moment but if I went back there I'd prefer the 
original D bitfields for any new development.