From: Brian Gough <bjg@network-theory.co.uk>
To: "Alxneit-Kamber Ivo" <ivo.alxneit@psi.ch>
Cc: <gsl-discuss@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: RFC bit_vectors
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 08:02:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mymi937v.wl%bjg@network-theory.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1211361194.31910.9.camel@pc6411.psi.ch>
At Wed, 21 May 2008 11:13:14 +0200,
Alxneit-Kamber Ivo wrote:
> attached please find an implementation of 'bit_vectors' (maybe bit
> fields would be a better name) that might be an interesting addition to
> GSL. 'bit_vectors' can be used similarly like a C bit field, only that
> they grow and shrink dynamically depending on the number of bits in use.
> Currently the user is limited to 'maximum(size_t)' bits (the bit number
> is passed as size_t) or by the amount of memory available. Note,
> however, that memory for all bits does not necessarily need to be
> allocated because high bits that are either all 1 or 0 are stored as a
> single implied bit.
Hello,
Did you have a specific use in mind? This is probably more suited to
a general C library rather than scientific library.
--
Brian Gough
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2008-05-21 9:13 Alxneit-Kamber Ivo
2008-05-22 8:02 ` Brian Gough [this message]
2008-05-22 11:34 ` Ivo Alxneit
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