Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long

From	Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de>
Newsgroups	comp.std.c
Subject	Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long
Date	2021-06-23 13:12 +0200
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Am 23.06.21 um 08:59 schrieb David Brown:
> 
> Who is your proposal for?  Who are you trying to help?

Programmers that need bit-fields wider than 16 bits, and want them to be
(somewhat more) portable.

> If you follow my recommendation and mandate support for /all/ integer
> type

I think that goes too far. I don't want to mandate support for extended
integer types.

> 
> I agree that your more limited proposal is more likely to get accepted
> than a wider one.  I simply don't think the limited version is worth the
> effort - it needs to be wider to be of relevance in real code.  So,
> IMVHO (and I'm not the one making or submitting the proposal) it makes
> sense to gamble for the big prize, and risk rejection for the more
> controversial proposal.
> 

Some more far-reaching proposals on integers including bit-fields have
been rejected in the past.

I think I'll try to clean up my proposal for unsigned long and unsigned
long long, and add two questions at the end: "Does WG14 want to see a
proposal for further standard integer types along the lines of this
one?" and "Does WG14 want to see a proposal for bit-precise integer
types along the lines of this one?".

Philipp

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bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2021-06-22 16:49 +0200
  Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-06-22 17:18 +0200
    Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-06-22 11:17 -0700
      Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2021-06-23 08:25 +0200
        Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-06-23 08:59 +0200
          Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2021-06-23 13:12 +0200
            Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-06-23 14:14 +0200
              Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2021-06-23 17:45 +0200
                Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-06-23 10:22 -0700
                Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2021-06-23 19:52 +0200
                Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-06-23 16:12 -0700
                Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-06-24 10:41 +0200
                Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-06-24 10:32 +0200
        Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-06-23 00:39 -0700
  Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2021-06-23 13:22 +0200
    Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2021-06-23 18:27 +0200
  Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2021-06-23 10:53 -0700
    Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2021-06-23 20:13 +0200
      Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2021-06-24 11:48 -0700
        Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-06-24 12:23 -0700
          Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-06-24 22:40 +0200
          Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2021-07-10 09:13 -0700
        Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2021-06-24 22:14 +0200
          Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2021-07-10 09:23 -0700
    Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-06-24 11:02 +0200
      Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-06-24 11:06 -0700
        Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-06-24 23:11 +0200
          Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-06-24 15:16 -0700
            Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-06-25 10:43 +0200
              Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-06-25 02:02 -0700
                Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-06-25 13:54 +0200
                Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-06-25 13:07 +0100
                Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-06-25 15:17 +0200
                Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-06-25 08:22 -0700
                Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-06-25 18:22 +0200
                Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-06-25 13:28 -0700
                Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-06-25 19:12 +0100
                Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2021-07-10 08:58 -0700
                Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-06-25 08:09 -0700
              Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2021-06-25 14:43 +0200
                Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-06-25 15:33 +0200
                Re: bit-fields of type unsigned long and unsigned long long Jakob Bohm <jb-usenet@wisemo.com.invalid> - 2021-07-06 23:18 +0200

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