[M3devel] Modula-3 bitfields

[Dragiša Durić]

I am in no doubt about general inadequacies of C et al…

What I hate is an idea of setters and getters for my bitfields. With pragma, compiler generated load/store will behave as needed. Everything transparent and just-working.

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Dragiša Durić
dragisha at m3w.org




On Aug 25, 2012, at 10:20 PM, Jay K wrote:

> Which brings me back to ...array of bytes, very clear, very portable... 
> 
> If you need compactness but not exact layout, C and Modula-3 do fine.
> If you need a portable predictable layout, other than an array of bytes, they both largely fail.

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