From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: how to do bit-wise operation on none modular types?
Date: 1999/03/05
Date: 1999-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7bos99$osc$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7boadc$9sm$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
In article <7boadc$9sm$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
bourguet@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> And, obviously for you but perhaps not for the one who
> started the thread, there are places where the "correct"
> solution is simply a record type with the adequate
> representation clause.
Yes, true, in some cases, but this approach is fraught
with problems:
1. assumptions about endianness
2. assumptions about layout of records and bit orders
3. assumptions about alignment etc
So you need to know what you are doing!
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1999-03-03 0:00 how to do bit-wise operation on none modular types? bill
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-03-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-05 0:00 ` bourguet
1999-03-05 0:00 ` robert_dewar [this message]
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-03-04 0:00 ` fraser
1999-03-03 0:00 ` fraser
1999-03-04 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-04 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-03-05 0:00 ` fraser
1999-03-03 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
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