Use this tag for questions related to bit packing, for example packing bits into integer types.
bit-packing is used in its general concept, and is usually found in questions using C (or C based languages) or Java.
Questions tagged [bit-packing]
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Packing bits into longs server/client transaction in Java
Are there libraries to compress bits into longs? I am trying to compress bits that I send over a network. Would it make more sense to just put the bits in a png file and transfer that?
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Unpack 16-bit integer values from a 64-bit field in MATLAB
I am reading data from an accelerometer, which provides the measurements for each of the 3 axes (x, y, and z) as 16-bit integers packed into a single 64-bit field.
I have the following code in C to extract these 3 axis values:
uint8_t byte0 =…
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How to pack the required bits of a structure in a char*?
Language : C++
I am working on Bit Packing (Extracting the required bits from the given data and packing them in a char*) . My code currently supports :
- Integers
- Characters
- Strings
Now if I have to store the required bits of a structure,…
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Parsing a MAC Address to an array of three 16-bit shorts
MAC Addresses are 48 bits. That is equivalent to three shorts. MAC
addresses are sometimes written like this: 01:23:45:67:89:ab where
each pair of digits represents a hexadecimal number.
Write a function that will take in a character pointer…
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