On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 10:34:33PM -0400, John Macdonald wrote: : If a int1 (or int2 or nybble or other sub-addressable sized : value) is being referred to, a similar issue arises since most : machines these days have byte addressing, but do not have bit : addressing. If you can't refer directly to it, the value will : have to be extracted and re-inserted to provide "is rw" access.
Well, sure. Is this any more of a problem than vec() in Perl 5? Larry
