On Fri, 2016-06-24 at 15:11 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Stuff like this is the reason I soon abandoned K&R as a learning > tool, > and used it only to determine the official behavior of C. > > Bit stuffing, sliding and masking were a tool of the assembly > programmer > back when your RAM could be counted in four digits and your processor > had little power.
Or you are doing the sort of things most C code written these days does. My last C program was taking to an RFID writer over a serial port to implement ISO 28560 standard library article tags. Bit fiddling is useful when the storage available on a typical RFID tag is less than a tweet. The graphical interface was in Tcl/Tk, because that sort of thing doesn't leverage the strengths of C. But trying to do the bit fiddling parts in Tcl would have been the exact opposite of fun.
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