On 15/05/2011 05:41 PM, Darren New wrote:
> On 5/15/2011 3:22, Warp wrote:
>> which was to properly handle C bitfields.
>
> Given that C doesn't define what order bit fields go in, that seems like
> a tall order. You can't technically do that from assembler, either. :-)
>
> Otherwise, it would seem pretty easy to write Haskell code (or any other
> language that handles integer math) to just use masks and multiplies and
> divides.

There's a Haskell standard library that offers all the usual bit-level 
operators, so it's not like you have to multiply by 2 when what you 
really want is a left-shift.

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