Re: Special Data Type Declaration and Usage
On Wed, 2011-11-16, Nick Keighley wrote:
On Nov 15, 9:30?pm, mrc2...@cox.net (Mike Copeland) wrote:
In article <op.v40apype4vp...@gp.homenet.telecomitalia.it>,
gennaro.prota+Use...@gmail.com says...> On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:04:25 +0100, Mike Copeland <mrc2...@cox.net> wrote:
? ?I need to declare an enormous array (100,000 members) of a small
scalar object, and I want to populate it with default values and change
some of them as needed throughout the processing. ?The range of distinct
values for each element is 0-15, so I could use a 4 bit "mini-byte"
the common term for a 4-bit quantity is a "nibble"
....
there are bit fields but I've never been keen. I normally use explicit
masks and shifts to extract bit fields. Something like this:-
<code>
typedef unsigned char Byte;
typedef unsigned char Nibble;
class NibbleContainer
{
public:
NibbleContainer(size_t size, Nibble default_value = 0);
size_t size() const { return m_size; }
void set (size_t i, Nibble nib);
Nibble get (size_t i) const;
private:
size_t m_size;
std::vector<Byte> m_vec;
};
....
</code>
now that amount of c-like c++ is bound to provoke a reaction...
If all C-like C++ was /that/ C++-like, I wouldn't dislike it so much!
Seriously, it looked perfectly fine. I'd do it exactly like that
(except I probably would use 'unsigned' instead of that 'Nibble'
typedef).
/Jorgen
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