>
> On Thu, 15 Jun 1995, Giao H Phan wrote:
>
> > on wizbits, as an aside to hex, have you guys started using that idea
> > whereby you could stuff like 80 bits into one var? i heard some bits and
> > pieces from pythe or fred about some sorta linked long shit or somethin,
> > i dunno... wonderin anything ever came of that, and if so, what? ;}
>
> I haven't heard of 'em at all..unless you're talking about a long
> double. I know under Borland C's DOS compiler, a long double is 80 bits,
> but I was under the impression that it wasn't ANSI, portable, or even
> especially kosher for use in everyday code. You could also just use an
> array of long[2] and write an intelligent function-like macro to figure
> out which long to compare with, but you'll run smack up against word
> ordering on different machines, as well as the cases where you need to
> check bits from both elements of the array.
>
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A bitlist can be used. it goes something like:
struct bits {
unsigned bit1 :1,
unsigned bit2 :1,
unsigned bit3 :1
};
It is ansi but I'm not sure if i got the syntax right.
The :1 means the var is 1 bit long in memory
(it has to be unsigned if it's 1 bit)
It could be :2 too (maybe for syslog1 and syslog2)
You now also can use something like:
if (bits.bit3) {
.....
}
instead of
if (GET_BIT(bitvector, 3)) {
....
}
If you want to use both systems you can use something like
union bitunion {
struct bits,
long int bitvector
};
(again i'm not sure of the syntax, check your C-book)
This way the struck and the long int ocupy the same space in memory so
if you change the one, the other is changed automaticly (since they are the same)
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