Indirect Bit Reference

[RBPLC]

Should it be possible to do: VWord:IndirectBit#. I was trying to do this in a for loop and it will not work. Direct reference VWord:B0, no issues.

[BobO]

Should it be possible to do: VWord:IndirectBit#. I was trying to do this in a for loop and it will not work. Direct reference VWord:B0, no issues.

No. There is no indirection in casts.

[franji1]

Instead of interpreting a word as bits, use 16 bits and interpret as WORDs when needed.

By doing bits as the "native" size, you can do indirect bit number (i.e. use it in a FOR loop), but still reference it as a WORD when needed by doing a :UW cast.

To cast 16 bits as a WORD, the starting bit must be WORD aligned, e.g. C0:UB, C16:UB, C32:UB, C48:UB

[ATU]

If you still want to keep your data in non boolean memory, you can do an intermediate copy over to a temporary bit array, and then reference the bits that way.  Although, if you can keep it in a bit array, its one less step.

[Controls Guy]

Word & 1 << idx