Re: [boost] [dynamic_bitset] Endianess and Adaption Vs Copying

Phil Endecott <spam_from_boost_dev <at> chezphil.org> writes:

If you're thinking about individual bits being "next to" bits in other bytes, and bits or bytes being "left" or "right" of each other, your mental model of endianness is over-complicated. Because bits are not individually addressable, the only thing that matters is the order of bytes (which are addressable) within words. Ordering of bits only matters when someone draws a picture of something like a peripheral register.

Granted. Sometimes you have to deal with (and understand) other people's mental models though. Joel