Tuesday, June 21

Today I continued work on the decoding. I am almost done with writing the decoding down. When I'm done with that I will work on the more difficult decoding up. A big part of today was writing various different utilities involving the activeWord struct to hold the decoded words, including a loop that I'm rather proud of:

void updateActiveWord(activeWord *toUpdate, word_32 newWord){

     int i;

     for(i=0;i<toUpdate->numSegs;i++){

          toUpdate->flag[i]=(newWord<<(4-(toUpdate->numSegs)+i))>>((toUpdate->length*toUpdate             ->numSegs)+3);

          toUpdate->seg[i]=(newWord<<(4+(toUpdate->length*i)))>>(WORD_LENGTH-toUpdate                   ->length);

     }

     toUpdate->currSeg=0;

}

It's not actually that complicated; the main reason I'm proud of this is because all of that looped bit work worked the first time through so I did not have to debug! What a day!