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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

-- 
-- Stephe



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-21  8:00 UTC|newest]

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
     [not found] <3533C3C5.3F25CB91@cacd.rockwell.com>
1998-04-16  0:00 ` Stephen Leake
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