Re: [boost] Proposed bit_struct submission to Boost

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-12 12:38:54

"Kevin S. Van Horn" <Kevin.VanHorn_at_[hidden]> writes:

> A local business had need of a facility to pack arbitrary-sized bitfields into
> exactly 64 bits, with a guarantee of no padding.  I wrote this class as a
> generalization of that need, and would like your comments as to whether this
> would be appropriate for submission to Boost.  You can download the source
> code, rough draft of documentation, and regression test from
>
>   http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~kvanhorn/bitstruct.tgz (gzipped tar file)
>
> or
>
>   http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu//~kvanhorn/bitstruct.zip (ZIP file).
>
> I have included the rough draft of the documentation below.
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> BITSTRUCT

Looks cool. I don't usually need such a thing, though. Could you give
some examples of likely use cases?

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