From: pkk@spth.de   
      
   Am 24.11.25 um 13:31 schrieb bart:   
   > On 24/11/2025 11:17, David Brown wrote:   
   >> On 24/11/2025 01:30, bart wrote:   
   >   
   >>> Saving memory was mentioned. To achieve that means having bitfields   
   >>> that may not start at bit 0 of a byte, and may cross byte- or word-   
   >>> boundaries.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> No, that is incorrect.   
   >>   
   >> The proposal mentions saving /space/ as relevant in FPGAs - not   
   >> saving / memory/.   
   >   
   > But I was responding to a suggestion here that one use of _BitInts -   
   > presumably for ordinary hardware - was to save memory.   
   >   
   > That's not going to happen if they are simply rounded up to the next   
   > power-of-two type.   
      
   SDCC has no padding bytes - a _BitInt(N) uses (N+7)/8 bytes. And for   
   SDCC, _BitInt is currently the only way to get adressable integers that   
   are not a "power-of-two type".   
      
   Philipp   
      
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