On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 11:23:11 UTC, bearophile wrote:
File an enhancement and/or submit a Phobos patch.
Ok, great. I'll try fixing this in a PR.
Further...I propose to enhance `bitfields` to automatically
deduce bitfield lengths in the following way.
autoBitfields!(ubyte, "x", 3, // explicit length
E, "e", -1, // field length is deduced
ubyte, "y", 3
// padding to whole bytes is deduced
)
Typical deductions are
- enums: E.max - E.min + 1 (this requires offsetting logic in
packing)
- bool: 1
Alternatively I guess we could use a specific enum type to
indicate that the field length should be deduced to minimum
required length.
I guess we could add a template overload to bitfields with a
specific first enum parameter that triggers size deduction,
instead of autoBitfields aswell.
What do you think?
