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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Byte Addressability And Beyond Date: Mon, 6 May 2024 02:30:02 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 7 Message-ID: <v19fba$2asct$2@dont-email.me> References: <v0s17o$2okf4$2@dont-email.me> <2024May3.171330@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <v13olm$p9ih$9@dont-email.me> <2024May4.111127@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <AnsZN.60734$gF_b.49289@fx17.iad> <v17dav$1o21q$2@dont-email.me> <20240505121327.00000946@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 06 May 2024 04:30:03 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5a5e5419d741772afcc61781addc791b"; logging-data="2453917"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19mKof/LoADmh3KEi2znXZV" User-Agent: Pan/0.155 (Kherson; fc5a80b8) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uJKw0IK5Jra/+3T1l8MKpzcIw1A= Bytes: 1403 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?