[M3devel] Modula-3 bitfields

[Dragiša Durić]

What mental model?

We have network order. Everything network is bit streams, from left to right, most significant bits/bytes. No need for mental model here, any communication oriented ISO, ETSI, ITU standard… 

I don't understand why you insist on C syntax here. C has its own problems and reasons why it's at war with most things mental. Please refer to my initial example instead.

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Dragiša Durić
dragisha at m3w.org




On Aug 24, 2012, at 7:48 PM, Jay K wrote:

> printf("%X %X\n", c.u.s.a, c.u.s.b);
> What do people expect?
> Do people really have a mental model as to what the layout rules are for bitfields?
> Are they obvious enough that every C compiler writer has actually implemented them the same and they become in a sense portable? 

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