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Re: naked switches

From Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: naked switches
Date 2021-07-16 03:53 -0700
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:

> Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> writes:
>
>> Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> writes:
>>
>>> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
>>>
>>>> Your extension [for extracting contiguous bits from a word] is not
>>>> commonly used, because it only exists in your tool.  People who need
>>>> to do a lot of bit slicing and don't like masking and shifting (or
>>>> struct bit-fields) should not have trouble defining:
>>>>
>>>> #define BIT(x, top, bottom) \
>>>> 	(((x) >> (bottom)) & ((1llu << ((top) - (bottom) + 1)) - 1))
>>>>
>>>> Yes, the parenthesis you need for macros are ugly, but you only need to
>>>> get it right once, and now you can read your bit-fields.
>>>
>>> That's undefined when all the bits are wanted.  (The left shift of 1llu
>>> could be equal to the width.)  Maybe you wrote it for a compiler that
>>> documents an extension.
>>>
>>> I usually right shift -1llu by the width minus the number of bits
>>> wanted, but you can also just do two left shifts.
>>
>> Another way, assuming the mask width desired is greater
>> than zero, is this
>>
>>    ((1LLU << width-1) -1) *2 +1
>>
>> which works great if 'width' is a compile-time constant.
>
> In the C++ world, we use this:
>
> namespace bit
> {
>     template <class T> static inline T maskT(size_t bits)
>     {
>         if (bits >= sizeof(T)*8)
>             return -1;
>         else
>             return ~(static_cast<T>(-1)<<bits);
>     }
>
>     template<class T> static inline T extract(T input, size_t stop_bit, size_t start_bit)
>     {
>         input >>= start_bit;
>         input &= maskT<T>(stop_bit - start_bit + 1);
>         return input;
>     }
>
>     static inline int64_t extracts(uint64_t input, size_t stop_bit, size_t start_bit)
>     {
>         int64_t imm = extract(input, stop_bit, start_bit);
>         int shift = 63-stop_bit+start_bit;
>         imm <<= shift;
>         imm >>= shift;
>         return imm;
>     }
>
>     template<class T> static inline T insert(T original, uint64_t insert, size_t start_bit, size_t width_bits)
>     {
>         T mask = bit::maskT<T>(width_bits);
>         T newdata = mask & insert;
>         mask <<= start_bit;
>         newdata <<= start_bit;
>         original &= ~mask;
>         original |= newdata;
>         return original;
>     }
> };
>
>     uint64_t registervalue, field;
>      int64_t field1;
>
>     field = bit::extract(registervalue, 15, 0);      /* Extract <15:0> and zero-extend */
>     field1 = bit::extracts((int64_t)registervalue, 20, 16);   /* Extract and sign-extend */
>
>     registervalue = bit::insert(registervalue, 0xff, 16, 4); /* Set bits<19:16> == 0xff */

Ahh, rather like using an elephant gun to shoot a field mouse.

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