Portable bitwise operations library (was Re: Portability Considerations)

[Alice Osako]

Eric Streit:
> Hi Alice,
>
> imho, I think this list is just perfect for the discussions about 
> Modula2; Telegram Modula2 is not restricted by M2R10, we exchange 
> about any Modula2 stuff (, and Oberon which is not very liked by 
> Benjamin.)

Fair enough then, I will continue posting here unless someone says to stop.

In the meanwhile, I have worked out most of a version of the bitwise 
library for GNU Modula-2 on x86_64. I did use inline assembly 
extensively, but if this is a problem I can easily re-write it as 
stand-alone assembly functions.

See https://github.com/Schol-R-LEA/Modula-2-Portable-Bit-Manipulation 
for the current status of this project.