Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:15:01 02/17/04
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On February 17, 2004 at 19:10:55, Bo Persson wrote:
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>If that was the only reason, maybe. On the other hand, the two most obvious ways
>to number bits is left-to-right and right-to-left, so it is just
>circumstantial(?) evidence at best. :-)
Unless you worked with old DEC stuff. Then you would number them
15..0, 32..15, ...
>Now I know that Bob got his numbering from the Cray bit scanning instructions,
>while I found it equally obvious to map my enum {a1, b1, c1, ...} to the equally
>numbered bits on a PC processor. That just happened to be right to left.
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