[Oberon] Bit manipulation in Oberon-07

[Jörg Straube]

Peter

ARM basically supports both little endian and big endian. It’s upto the chip maker to decide, although 99% of the ARM vendors decide for little endian (and in most cases LSB0 goes with it)

I have no clear visibility on the network processors, but as TCP uses big endian I could imagine that specialized network processors use big endian (and MSB0 with it)

Jörg

> Am 27.10.2018 um 21:23 schrieb Peter Matthias <PeterMatthias at web.de>:
> 
>> Am 27.10.18 um 19:53 schrieb Jörg Straube:
>> Luckily in this case the bit numbering of Cortex M and the bit numbering of RISC5 are identical, both use LSB0. But if one CPU used MSB0 and the other LSB0, what is the definition of the UBFX arguments then?
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> Are there still architectures available that use MSB0? Even if, the compiler can define MSB0.
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>> UBFX(7,3) can be written as „DIV 128 MOD 8“
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> ... which the ARM compiler easily can fuse to one UBFX instruction.
> 
> Peter
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