Hi! On Wed, 2017-06-07 at 23:13:33 +0900, Vitalie Ciubotaru wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Vitalie Ciubotaru <vita...@ciubotaru.tk> > > * Package name : bitfield > Version : 0.6.3 > Upstream Author : Vitalie Ciubotaru <vita...@ciubotaru.tk> > * URL : https://github.com/ciubotaru/bitfield > * License : GPL > Programming Lang: C > Description : bit array manipulation library > > bitfield is a library of functions for creating, modifying and destroying bit > fields (or bit arrays), i.e. series of zeroes and ones spread across an array > of > storage units (unsigned long integers). > > Bit array is a simple data structure used in a wide range of software > (starting > from Linux kernel), yet there is no library that would provide this > functionality, so every package has to reinvent the wheel.
Well, obviously not entirely as complete but the BSDs (and libbsd otherwise) do have something like <sys/bitstring.h>. BTW, I noticed when I checked the implementation that you are using HAVE_BITFIELD_H as the header macro protector, but that's actually a bad idea, as with the typical autoconf based build-system that macro will already be defined if the build-system does something like AC_CHECK_HEADERS([bitfield.h]), which means the contents will be secluded. Thanks, Guillem
