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> It depends how you are intending to access the bits individually.
> Among the bitset numbering orders I have seen are
>       {31, 30, ....    1, 0}
>       {24, 25, .... 32, 16, 17, ... 23, 8, 9,  ... 15,  7, 6, ... 0 }
>       {7, 6,   .... 0,  15, 14, ... 8, 23, 22, ... 16,  31, 30, ... 24 }

ISTR PIM favours the first. I think that the points Martin makes are 
something that any programmer should be aware of, they invariably crop up 
as soon as any attempt is made to access an underlying system that has 
not been written in the same language implementation- also when parsing 
data structures received as raw data across a network (both jobs that CS 
types prefer to sweep under the carpet :-)

Mark Morgan Lloyd
mark_tbu@cix.compulink.co.uk

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