/* Unpack a bitfield of the specified FIELD_TYPE, from the object at
VALADDR, and store the result in *RESULT.
- The bitfield starts at BITPOS bits and contains BITSIZE bits.
+ The bitfield starts at BITPOS bits and contains BITSIZE bits; if
+ BITSIZE is zero, then the length is taken from FIELD_TYPE.
Extracting bits depends on endianness of the machine. Compute the
number of least significant bits to discard. For big endian machines,
if (bitsize)
bytes_read = ((bitpos % 8) + bitsize + 7) / 8;
else
- bytes_read = TYPE_LENGTH (field_type);
+ {
+ bytes_read = TYPE_LENGTH (field_type);
+ bitsize = 8 * bytes_read;
+ }
read_offset = bitpos / 8;
/* If the field does not entirely fill a LONGEST, then zero the sign bits.
If the field is signed, and is negative, then sign extend. */
- if ((bitsize > 0) && (bitsize < 8 * (int) sizeof (val)))
+ if (bitsize < 8 * (int) sizeof (val))
{
valmask = (((ULONGEST) 1) << bitsize) - 1;
val &= valmask;