[M3devel] Modula-3 bitfields

[Mika Nystrom]

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>I am in no doubt about general inadequacies of C et al=85
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>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.

Until you have some data that is PDP-endian :-)

Or want to split a field across a boundary that you're not supposed to
be able to split a field across.

Or have a field that's semantically scattered/gathered.

Can your proposed scheme represent IEEE floating point? 

I agree it is a very useful idea, I agree it has to be done "right".
But my definition of doing it "right" would be so demanding you'd be
crazy to do it in the compiler....

    Mika

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