second draft: add Bitfields to D
Walter Bright
newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Sat May 4 02:19:42 UTC 2024
On 5/3/2024 5:52 AM, Patrick Schluter wrote:
> Not true. x86 provides BMI1 instructions which are present in x86 CPUs at least
> since 2013.
> ARM also provides bit field instructions and quite a number of legacy CPU's also
> had bitfield instructions (m68k, NEC V30, Itanium, PowerPC, etc.).
> Doesn't change the issues with language bitfields
I'd be very surprised if it didn't work by reading the entire field first.
https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/bextr
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