Re: [Chicken-users] working with bit- and byte-level structures

[Hans Bulfone]

hi,

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:38:44AM -0700, Martin DeMello wrote:
> Ah - okay, if it's serialisation-specific, it's not what I'm looking
> for. I was looking for an analogue to the C trick of interpreting a
> block of bits as a struct quickly and efficiently.

maybe you can use define-foreign-record to define the struct.
but this doesn't work at the bit level, afaik there is no way to say
e.g. unsigned int flag : 1;

see http://chicken.wiki.br/Accessing%20external%20objects
and http://chicken.wiki.br/Foreign%20type%20specifiers

hth&bye,
hans.