USING: help.markup help.syntax math ; IN: math.bitwise ARTICLE: "math-bitfields" "Constructing bit fields" "Some applications, such as binary communication protocols and assemblers, need to construct integers from elaborate bit field specifications. Hand-coding this using " { $link shift } " and " { $link bitor } " results in repetitive code. A higher-level facility exists to factor out this repetition:" { $subsection bitfield } ; ABOUT: "math-bitfields" HELP: bitfield { $values { "values..." "a series of objects" } { "bitspec" "an array" } { "n" integer } } { $description "Constructs an integer from a series of values on the stack together with a bit field specifier, which is an array whose elements have one of the following shapes:" { $list { { $snippet "{ constant shift }" } " - the resulting bit field is bitwise or'd with " { $snippet "constant" } " shifted to the right by " { $snippet "shift" } " bits" } { { $snippet "{ word shift }" } " - the resulting bit field is bitwise or'd with " { $snippet "word" } " applied to the top of the stack; the result is shifted to the right by " { $snippet "shift" } " bits" } { { $snippet "shift" } " - the resulting bit field is bitwise or'd with the top of the stack; the result is shifted to the right by " { $snippet "shift" } " bits" } } "The bit field specifier is processed left to right, so stack values should be supplied in reverse order." } { $examples "Consider the following specification:" { $list { "bits 0-10 are set to the value of " { $snippet "x" } } { "bits 11-14 are set to the value of " { $snippet "y" } } { "bit 15 is always on" } { "bits 16-20 are set to the value of " { $snippet "fooify" } " applied to " { $snippet "z" } } } "Such a bit field construction can be specified with a word like the following:" { $code ": baz-bitfield ( x y z -- n )" " {" " { fooify 16 }" " { 1 15 }" " 11" " 0" " } ;" } } ; HELP: bits { $values { "m" integer } { "n" integer } { "m'" integer } } { $description "Keep only n bits from the integer m." } { $example "USING: math.bitwise prettyprint ;" "HEX: 123abcdef 16 bits .h" "cdef" } ; HELP: bitroll { $values { "x" "an integer (input)" } { "s" "an integer (shift)" } { "w" "an integer (wrap)" } { "y" integer } } { $description "Roll n by s bits to the left, wrapping around after w bits." } { $examples { $example "USING: math.bitwise prettyprint ;" "1 -1 32 bitroll .b" "10000000000000000000000000000000" } { $example "USING: math.bitwise prettyprint ;" "HEX: ffff0000 8 32 bitroll .h" "ff0000ff" } } ;