From: okellogg <okellogg@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Should representation clauses be complete for each bit?
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:29:18 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2011-07-20T08:29:18-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17c212b1-d0a6-498a-a381-71188a67ec65@a10g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wcczkk9ngxy.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com
On 20 Jul., 16:51, Robert A Duff <bobd...@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote:
> [...]
> > IMHO it would be a real gain if we could explicitly mention the unused
> > bits in the rep spec.
>
> I think the unused bits should be explicitly declared.
My use case originates from a bit packed communication protocol where
the standard requires spare bits interspersed among the useful data.
However the API of the driver shall not expose these spare fields.
This leads to the complexity that I have two sets of type definitions,
one for on-the-wire usage and the other, almost identical (modulo the
spare fields) for the driver API - which entails the need for hand
coded conversion between these types.
Oliver
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-20 10:34 Should representation clauses be complete for each bit? okellogg
2011-07-20 14:51 ` Robert A Duff
2011-07-20 15:24 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-07-20 17:28 ` Robert A Duff
2011-07-21 7:37 ` Martin
2011-07-21 8:22 ` Simon Wright
2011-07-21 14:58 ` Robert A Duff
2011-07-23 0:13 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-07-27 14:12 ` okellogg
2011-07-28 0:03 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-07-21 9:43 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-07-21 15:06 ` Robert A Duff
2011-07-31 15:02 ` BrianG
2011-07-21 21:11 ` Brian Drummond
2011-07-21 7:59 ` Stephen Leake
2011-07-20 15:29 ` okellogg [this message]
2011-07-20 16:24 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-07-20 16:58 ` okellogg
2011-07-20 19:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-07-20 17:27 ` Robert A Duff
2011-07-20 19:14 ` okellogg
2011-07-20 20:13 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-07-20 21:23 ` Robert A Duff
2011-07-20 21:21 ` Robert A Duff
2011-07-21 8:02 ` Stephen Leake
2011-07-21 8:00 ` Stephen Leake
2011-07-21 7:36 ` Martin
2011-07-22 23:50 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-07-23 2:16 ` tmoran
2011-07-23 15:12 ` Robert A Duff
2011-07-26 21:10 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-07-23 0:01 ` Randy Brukardt
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