On Wednesday, 23 July 2014 at 00:59:38 UTC, H. S. Teoh via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
I think it's best to keep a bit count of the number of valid
bits at the
end of the array, in addition to the number of words in the
underlying
array. You might also want to consider keeping a bit count of
the number
of valid bits at the *start* of the array, so that it's
possible to
bit-level slicing in a transparent way.
Sorry, being too eager to reply.
We would need to use a secondary pointer to the count to avoid
breaking code that uses the void init(void[], size_t) function
which allows arbitrary bit twiddling of the passed in array.
