Hi all,can you please tell the most efficient method to reverse a
byte.Function should return a byte that is reversed.
Mar 22 '06
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pete wrote: pete wrote: Pedro Graca wrote: hi_mask = (UCHAR_MAX + 1) >> 1;
is more portable?
Not more portable, but slightly better style, perhaps.
Actually, (UCHAR_MAX + 1) is not portable.
If UCHAR_MAX is equal to UINT_MAX, then (hi_mask = (UCHAR_MAX + 1) >> 1) is equal to zero.
and, if UCHAR_MAX is equal to INT_MAX, the expression creates
undefined (or system defined) behaviour, due to the silly way that
integer promotions work. Unsignedness is not preserved.
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CBFalconer <cb********@yah oo.com> writes: pete wrote: pete wrote: Pedro Graca wrote:
hi_mask = (UCHAR_MAX + 1) >> 1;
is more portable?
Not more portable, but slightly better style, perhaps.
Actually, (UCHAR_MAX + 1) is not portable.
If UCHAR_MAX is equal to UINT_MAX, then (hi_mask = (UCHAR_MAX + 1) >> 1) is equal to zero.
and, if UCHAR_MAX is equal to INT_MAX, the expression creates undefined (or system defined) behaviour, due to the silly way that integer promotions work. Unsignedness is not preserved.
It's unlikely that any real implementation would have UCHAR_MAX ==
INT_MAX. CHAR_BIT would have to be at least 15, and int would have to
have exactly CHAR_BIT value bits (plus 1 sign bit), and therefore at
least CHAR_BIT-1 padding bits (since the total number of bits must be
a multiple of CHAR_BIT). Conforming, but silly.
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jaysome said: Richard Heathfield wrote:
jaysome said:
Nor would I suspect that most other C programmers will [ever use a system with CHAR_BIT > 8].
Well, I certainly have used such an implementation, and so have a whole bunch of people I was working with at the time, and so has anyone else who has written C for the same chip, and so have lots of other people writing C for other similar chips, too. And such chips, common a few years ago, are becoming yet more common all the time.
Okay.
But the fact that you and your co-workers and probably some of your friends and their friends have used such an implementation does not hardly qualify for "most" C programmers.
Sure, but the kind of chips we're talking about are the very stuff of which
embedded systems are made, and that's where most C work is being done. I
would not be even remotely surprised if CHAR_BIT > 8 systems actually
outnumbered CHAR_BIT = 8 systems.
To be sure--a table impementation is fine as long as you understand the ramifications to portability.
Absolutely.
And I reiterate--most C programmers will be just fine, whether of not they understand the ramifications.
Provided they stay away from the Real World, I agree entirely.
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On 2006-03-24, Keith Thompson <ks***@mib.or g> wrote: CBFalconer <cb********@yah oo.com> writes: pete wrote: pete wrote: Pedro Graca wrote: > > hi_mask = (UCHAR_MAX + 1) >> 1; > > is more portable?
Not more portable, but slightly better style, perhaps.
Actually, (UCHAR_MAX + 1) is not portable.
If UCHAR_MAX is equal to UINT_MAX, then (hi_mask = (UCHAR_MAX + 1) >> 1) is equal to zero.
and, if UCHAR_MAX is equal to INT_MAX, the expression creates undefined (or system defined) behaviour, due to the silly way that integer promotions work. Unsignedness is not preserved.
It's unlikely that any real implementation would have UCHAR_MAX == INT_MAX. CHAR_BIT would have to be at least 15, and int would have to have exactly CHAR_BIT value bits (plus 1 sign bit), and therefore at least CHAR_BIT-1 padding bits (since the total number of bits must be a multiple of CHAR_BIT). Conforming, but silly.
I'm not sure K&R gave any thought to odd ducks like this, any more than
the case where single bits were addressable like the old (iirc)
Borroughs machines.
Richard Heathfield wrote: jaysome said:
Richard Heathfield wrote:
jaysome said:
Nor would I suspect that most other C programmers will [ever use a system with CHAR_BIT > 8].
Well, I certainly have used such an implementation, and so have a whole bunch of people I was working with at the time, and so has anyone else who has written C for the same chip, and so have lots of other people writing C for other similar chips, too. And such chips, common a few years ago, are becoming yet more common all the time.
Okay.
But the fact that you and your co-workers and probably some of your friends and their friends have used such an implementation does not hardly qualify for "most" C programmers.
Sure, but the kind of chips we're talking about are the very stuff of which embedded systems are made, and that's where most C work is being done. I would not be even remotely surprised if CHAR_BIT > 8 systems actually outnumbered CHAR_BIT = 8 systems.
I'd be very surprised.
Microchip:
"grep" C:\HTSOFT\PIC18 \include
limits.h(3):#de fine CHAR_BIT 8 /* bits per char */
Atmel:
"grep" C:\WINAVR
limits.h(6):#de fine CHAR_BIT __CHAR_BIT__
__CHAR_BIT__ = 8
Between Microchip and Atmel, that's a lot of chips. And I reiterate--most C programmers will be just fine, whether of not they understand the ramifications.
Provided they stay away from the Real World, I agree entirely.
And I reiterate--most C programmers will be just fine.
When, and if, they ever get to develop with an implementation that
defines CHAR_BIT > 8, and that makes a difference compared to CHAR_BIT =
8, "most" C programmers will directly or indirectly (e.g., via the
testing group) force a result that leads them to conclude that their
assumption about CHAR_BIT = 8 is invalid; subsequently, they would
follow up with a resolution.
That's my Real World, anyways. YMMV.
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jaysome opined: Richard Heathfield wrote: jaysome said:Richard Heathfield wrote: jaysome said:
<snip>
And I reiterate--most C programmers will be just fine, whether of not they understand the ramifications. Provided they stay away from the Real World, I agree entirely.
And I reiterate--most C programmers will be just fine.
When, and if, they ever get to develop with an implementation that
^^^^^^^
What about "port old code"?
defines CHAR_BIT > 8, and that makes a difference compared to CHAR_BIT = 8, "most" C programmers will directly or indirectly (e.g., via the testing group) force a result that leads them to conclude that their assumption about CHAR_BIT = 8 is invalid; subsequently, they would follow up with a resolution.
Which, in case of "maintain old code" leads to endless hunt for all the
places where integer constant 8 needs to be changed to 13.
That's my Real World, anyways. YMMV.
Not all people are lucky enough to have it easy, and do only
green-field development.
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