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Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On Sun, 5 May 2024 12:13:27 +0300, Michael S wrote:

>> PEXTR/PDEP has no immediate form, which makes it inconvenient for
>> 'C'-style fixed bit fields.

> Fixed bit fields are a limitation of the C language. Why should it 
> constrain the design of machine architectures?

The only thing C bit-fields bears on extract and insert is the need
for constants that specify the field.