stevedlawrence commented on a change in pull request #77: Modifications to IO 
layer to support streaming input data
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-daffodil/pull/77#discussion_r201097800
 
 

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 File path: daffodil-lib/src/main/scala/org/apache/daffodil/util/BitOrder.scala
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 @@ -213,4 +213,60 @@ object Bits {
     String.format("%8s", unsignedByte.toBinaryString).replace(' ', '0')
   }
 
+  def signExtend(l: Long, bitLength: Int): Long = {
+    Assert.usage(bitLength > 0 && bitLength <= 64)
+    if (bitLength == 1) return l // a single bit has no sign to extend
+    val shift = 64 - bitLength
+    val res = ((l << shift) >> shift) // arithmetic shift right extends sign.
+    res
+  }
+
+  def unSignExtend(l: Long, bitLength: Int): Long = {
+    Assert.usage(bitLength > 0 && bitLength <= 64)
+    val mask = if (bitLength == 64) -1L else (1L << bitLength) - 1
+    l & mask
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Round up the bitPosition to the nearest byte position.
+   *
+   * For example, say we want to read up to a bit position that is not a full
+   * byte. That will require reading the full byte, leaving the bytePosition
+   * past our bit position. This function can be used to determine where that
+   * byte position will be. Essentially, if bitPos0b is not a multiple of 8, we
+   * round up one byte.
+   */
+  def roundUpToByte(bitPos0b: Long): Long = {
 
 Review comment:
   Agreed. This method isn't really used for aligning (though I guess it could 
be), but the second name is much more clear about what it's doing. Fixed.

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