Re: bitset

From:
"gast128@hotmail.com" <gast128@hotmail.com>
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Date:
Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:54:03 CST
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On 11 mrt, 19:12, Michael.Boehni...@gmail.com wrote:

On 11 Mrz., 08:44, "gast...@hotmail.com" <gast...@hotmail.com> wrote:> I was using std::bitset in this manner:

[..]

Your problems arise from your definition of the enum items. You'd be
better off using the index positions of the corresponding bits, or a
second enum with these values.

enum EBit_idx { eBti0 = 0, eBti1, eBti2, eBti3 };
enum EBit { eBt0 = 1 << eBti0, eBt1 = 1 << eBti1, eBt2 = 1 << eBti2,
eBt3 = 1 << eBti3 };

std::bitset<4> bts( eBt0 | eBt2 );
std::bitset<4> bts( ( 1 << eBti0 ) | ( 1 << ebti2 ) ); // alternative.

In terms of runtime performance both are identical as the inner
expression is evaluated during compilation.

To test a bit you can use, e.g.
bool test = bts.test( eBti2 );
bool test = ( ( bts & eBt2 ) != 0 ); // alternative 1
bool test = ( ( ( 1 << eBti2 ) & bts ) != 0 ) // alternative 2

The first one looks best for me, but the other ones are identical in
runtime behavior.


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I was thinking that myself. However I used the bitwise exclusive
enums, so that a constructor could take multiple arguments. This is
essential, otherwise as alternative I could also take a vector and
push_back the values:

class Foo
{
    Foo(const std::bitset<4>& cr);
};

Foo foo(eBti0 | eBti1);

and there was my surprise in asymmetric behavior: the constructor
takes the 'values' and translates that back to positions, while the
rest of the class interface works with the position only.

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