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#251 BITSET types
In IPTCom there were several complaints due to the lack of, and requests for supporting the data types BYTE / WORD / DWORD, respectively.
I initially thought that in TRDP this had been addressed by supporting BITSET types but now found to my surprise that TRDP only supports BITSET8, but not BITSET16/32/64. Why?
Bernd, TRDP supports the data types defined and standardized in IEC 61375, only. 'BYTE', 'WORD' and 'DWORD' are solely used in the x86 architecture, whereas 'WORD' in a more common sense denotes the native data size of a processor. Bitsets (do not use bitfields in 'C' !!!) can be enlarged by using arrays...
(Refer to GH ;-)
Well, I can't really subscribe to that since BITSET8/16/32/64 are TCN data types, whereas the type ANTIVALENT8 which is supported by TRDP is not.
Anyway, it isn't really important but rather a matter of curiosity.