A question and a proposal

[Nicolas Boulay]

>
> I saw in the beamer presentation available on the website (slides 73
> to 75) that the Mapping section is to be used to access
> hardware-specific layouts. The examples show how to achieve mapping
> with multiple of bytes data types (UINTEGER_16 and UINTEGER_32). Is it
> also possible to perform such a mapping on data which is not an
> integer multiple of bytes such as mapping, say, 3 bits (mostly like
> bitfields work in C) ? Os-deving was a time-consuming hobby of mine
> before my PhD, and such mapping features are very handy and less
> error-prone than bitwise operations.

There is no mapping using a bit  offset. But this is on the TODO list.

> Thank you for your attention,
> Hope to here about you soon,
>
> --
> Pierre-Nicolas "pini" Clauss
>
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