Re: Bit field vs bit manipulation?
"Ondrej Spanel" wrote:
Example:
struct twelve {
WORD high : 12;
WORD low : 12;
} parts;
low = (( byte.b & 0x0f) * 256) + byte.c;
high= ((byte.b & 0xf0) >> 4) + (byte.a * 16);
First is definitely more readable. Second may be preferred when you need to
maintain crossplatform compatibility of the data layout, as ordering of
items in bitfieds may vary between compilers / CPU architectures. Even if
you use second, I would probably avoid manipulating bytes and write the code
as:
low = ( input& 0xfff );
high = ( input & 0xfff000 )>>12;
This is much better readable and it will actually even perform a lot better
than your example.
If your intention was to have the data stored or accessed as three bytes in
the memory, then you will need to use a code like your second version, as
bitfield storage is always represented as 32b int.
Regards
Ondrej
Thanks! That is a great help. I did figure it out later and simple
used the following to achieve my goal;
union groups {
struct bits {
unsigned int high : 12;
unsigned in low : 12;
const unisgned : 8;
} bit;
struct bytes {
unsigned char msb;
unsigned char nsb;
unsigned char lsb;
} byte;
} group;
The most important goal was not to corrupt data everytime I read a new
byte. Which is fixed now. Using the above "union" to build a table of
12 bit values, only once because I dont care about repeats at this time.
Thanks.
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