Re: bitstreams

["Pat Rogers" <progers@NOclasswideSPAM.com>]

Only for the modular (i.e., unsigned) types, not the signed types.  See
B.2{9}


<mark_lundquist@my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:93vik8$u08$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> In article <93se2v$nen$1@eol.dd.chalmers.se>,
>   "Daniel Nilsson" <danielnilsson@REMOVE_THIShem3.passagen.se> wrote:
> > Hi.
> > In my mp3 decoder I will have to search for bit-patterns in a buffer of
> > bytes, how is this best done, and How can I "shift" in a sequence of
bits
> > into a byte, or word efficiently? (I want ex. take 5 bits from a buffer
and
> > put them rightadjusted in a unsigned_32)
>
> Note that shift and rotate functions are primitive operations of the
> Signed_<n> and Unsigned_<n> families of types (RM [B.2])