le and be

[hecatia-elegua]

https://doc.rust-lang.org/src/core/num/uint_macros.rs.html
to_le/to_be
from_le/from_be

After reading issues like this: Robbepop/modular-bitfield#46
I wondered how this could be handled by us.
Adding these 4 functions would mirror the primitive numbers and they afaik just need to call their UnderlyingType's functions.

[hecatia-elegua]

I've tried implementing it but need to test it with bitfields first.
The only difficulty is that we of course have some unfilled bits:

/// u24
pub const fn from_ne_bytes(bytes: [u8; 3]) -> Self { //mem::size_of::<Self>() can't be used, would be 4
    unsafe { mem::transmute(bytes) } //can't be used, we're 4 bytes wide, so we need to add a 0 byte
}

swap_bytes works in a similar fashion.

[danlehmann]

Would such functions even be well-defined for everything? What does it mean for a u19 to be be vs le?

I can see how it makes sense in bitfield, but in arbitrary_int, should we limit this to multiples of 8?

[hecatia-elegua]

I noticed that as well while implementing and proceeded to do multiples of 8.

[hecatia-elegua]

This is still lying around somewhere, will try to add this soon.

[hecatia-elegua]

"soon"

[danlehmann]

Working on this. Have swap_bytes and to_le_bytes (and ne and be) ready. from_ne_bytes is slightly more tricky, macro wise. Will upload a patch shortly

[danlehmann]

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