From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Subject: Re: Should representation clauses be complete for each bit?
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:00:13 -0400
Date: 2011-07-21T04:00:13-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <82tyag5aia.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 17c212b1-d0a6-498a-a381-71188a67ec65@a10g2000yqn.googlegroups.com
okellogg <okellogg@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> 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.
+2
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-- Stephe
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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
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 [this message]
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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1998-04-17 0:00 Should Representation Clauses " Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
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1998-04-16 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
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