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Copyright 1992 by Jutta Degener and Carsten Bormann, Technische
Universitaet Berlin. See the accompanying file "COPYRIGHT" for
details. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY FOR THIS SOFTWARE.

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BITTER 1
NAME
bitter, sweet \(em code-generators for packing bits
SYNOPSIS
bitter < input > output sweet < input > output
"DESCRIPTION"
Bitter and sweet are two filters which turn a description of the form
 name number-of-bits
 name number-of-bits
 ...
into code.

Bitter generates code that packs the specified bits from their variables into an array of unsigned char referenced by an advancing pointer c.

Sweet generates code that unpacks the specified bits from an array of unsigned char referenced by a mutable pointer c into the named variables. .SH OPTIONS
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
.SH ERRORS

EXAMPLES
% cat in
amaretto 1
banana 2
cherry 3
strawberry 4
vanilla 15
walnut 15

% bitter < in
 *c++ = ((amaretto & 0x1) << 7)
 | ((banana & 0x3) << 5)
 | ((cherry & 0x7) << 2)
 | ((strawberry >> 2) & 0x3);
 *c++ = ((strawberry & 0x3) << 6)
 | ((vanilla >> 9) & 0x3F);
 *c++ = ((vanilla >> 1) & 0xFF);
 *c++ = ((vanilla & 0x1) << 7)
 | ((walnut >> 8) & 0x7F);
 *c++ = walnut & 0xFF;

% sweet < in
 amaretto = (*c >> 7) & 0x1;
 banana = (*c >> 5) & 0x3;
 cherry = (*c >> 2) & 0x7;
 strawberry = (*c++ & 0x3) << 2;
 strawberry |= (*c >> 6) & 0x3;
 vanilla = (*c++ & 0x3F) << 9;
 vanilla |= (*c++ & 0xFF) << 1;
 vanilla |= (*c >> 7) & 0x1;
 walnut = (*c++ & 0x7F) << 8;
 walnut |= *c++;
NOTES
This is a quick hack for the gsm_encode() and gsm_decode() routines.
BUGS
Please direct bug reports to jutta (at] pobox.com and cabo (at] tzi.org.