Memory layout of a data structure

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Memory layout of a data structure
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It is often useful to control the memory layout of fields in a data structure to match an interface control definition, or to interface with hardware. Define a data structure matching the RS-232 Plug Definition. Use the 9-pin definition for brevity.

Pin Settings for Plug
(Reverse order for socket.)
__________________________________________
1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
_________________
1  2  3  4  5
6  7  8  9
25 pin                        9 pin
1 - PG   Protective ground
2 - TD   Transmitted data     3
3 - RD   Received data        2
4 - RTS  Request to send      7
5 - CTS  Clear to send        8
6 - DSR  Data set ready       6
7 - SG   Signal ground        5
8 - CD   Carrier detect       1
9 - + voltage (testing)
10 - - voltage (testing)
11 -
12 - SCD  Secondary CD
13 - SCS  Secondary CTS
14 - STD  Secondary TD
15 - TC   Transmit clock
16 - SRD  Secondary RD
17 - RC   Receiver clock
18 -
19 - SRS  Secondary RTS            
20 - DTR  Data terminal ready      4
21 - SQD  Signal quality detector
22 - RI   Ring indicator           9
23 - DRS  Data rate select
24 - XTC  External clock
25 -

Contents

[edit] Ada

type Bit is mod 2;
type Rs_232_Layout is record
Carrier_Detect  : Bit;
Received_Data  : Bit;
Transmitted_Data  : Bit;
Data_Terminal_ready : Bit;
Signal_Ground  : Bit;
Data_Set_Ready  : Bit;
Request_To_Send  : Bit;
Clear_To_Send  : Bit;
Ring_Indicator  : Bit;
end record;
 
for Rs_232_Layout use record
Carrier_Detect at 0 range 0..0;
Received_Data at 0 range 1..1;
Transmitted_Data at 0 range 2..2;
Data_Terminal_Ready at 0 range 3..3;
Signal_Ground at 0 range 4..4;
Data_Set_Ready at 0 range 5..5;
Request_To_Send at 0 range 6..6;
Clear_To_Send at 0 range 7..7;
Ring_Indicator at 0 range 8..8;
end record;

[edit] ALGOL 68

Works with: ALGOL 68 version Revision 1 - no extensions to language used

Works with: ALGOL 68G version Any - tested with release 1.18.0-9h.tiny

Works with: ELLA ALGOL 68 version Any (with appropriate job cards) - tested with release 1.8-8d

MODE RSTWOTHREETWO = BITS;
INT ofs = bits width - 9;
INT
lwb rs232 = ofs + 1,
carrier detect = ofs + 1,
received data = ofs + 2,
transmitted data = ofs + 3,
data terminal ready = ofs + 4,
signal ground = ofs + 5,
data set ready = ofs + 6,
request to send = ofs + 7,
clear to send = ofs + 8,
ring indicator = ofs + 9,
upb rs232 = ofs + 9;
 
RSTWOTHREETWO rs232 bits := 2r10000000; # up to bits width, OR #
print(("received data: ",received data ELEM rs232bits, new line));
 
rs232 bits := bits pack((FALSE, TRUE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE));
print(("received data: ",received data ELEM rs232bits, new line))

Output:

received data: T
received data: T

[edit] C/C++

Note: The order of the fields is implementation-defined (i.e. the first bit might be the least-significant one or the most-significant one). On GCC and MSVC++, the first bit is the least-significant one.

struct RS232_data
{
unsigned carrier_detect : 1;
unsigned received_data : 1;
unsigned transmitted_data : 1;
unsigned data_terminal_ready : 1;
unsigned signal_ground : 1;
unsigned data_set_ready : 1;
unsigned request_to_send : 1;
unsigned clear_to_send : 1;
unsigned ring_indicator : 1;
};
 

The ":1" gives the number of allocated bits. For unused bits (e.g. pin 11 in the 25-pin version above) the field name can be omitted.

Since as stated before the order of bits can't be assured but it could be important if we need to interact with hardware, the best way is to define bit masks; of course actual writing/reading to/from an hardware "register" greater than a single byte must be done taking care of endianness.

[edit]

[edit] D

Implementation uses tango's BitArray structure.

Library: tango

 
module controlFieldsInStruct;
 
import tango.core.BitArray;
import tango.io.Stdout;
import tango.text.convert.Integer;
 
class RS232Wrapper(int Length = 9)
{
static assert(Length == 9 || Length == 25, "ERROR, wrong type");
BitArray ba;
static uint[char[]] _map;
 
public:
 
static if (Length == 9) {
static this() {
_map = [ cast(char[])
"CD" : 1, "RD" : 2, "TD" : 3, "DTR" : 4, "SG" : 5,
"DSR" : 6, "RTS" : 7, "CTS" : 8, "RI" : 9
];
}
} else {
static this() {
_map = [ cast(char[])
"PG" : 1u, "TD" : 2, "RD" : 3, "RTS" : 4, "CTS" : 5,
"DSR" : 6, "SG" : 7, "CD" : 8, "+" : 9, "-" : 10,
"SCD" : 12, "SCS" : 13, "STD" : 14, "TC" : 15, "SRD" : 16,
"RC" : 17, "SRS" : 19, "DTR" : 20, "SQD" : 21, "RI" : 22,
"DRS" : 23, "XTC" : 24
];
}
}
 
 
this() {
ba.length = Length;
}
 
bool opIndex(uint pos) { return ba[pos]; }
bool opIndexAssign(bool b, uint pos) { return (ba[pos] = b); }
bool opIndex(char[] name) {
assert (name in _map, "don't know that plug: " ~ name);
return opIndex(_map[name]);
}
bool opIndexAssign(bool b, char[] name) {
assert (name in _map, "don't know that plug: " ~ name);
return opIndexAssign(b, _map[name]);
}
void opSliceAssign(bool b) { foreach (ref r; ba) r = b; }
char[] toString() {
char[] ret = "[";
foreach (name, value; _map)
ret ~= name ~ ":" ~ (ba[value]?"1":"0") ~", ";
ret ~= "]";
return ret;
}
}
 
int main(char[][] args)
{
auto ba = new RS232Wrapper!(25);
 
// set all bits
ba[] = 1;
ba["RD"] = 0;
ba[5] = 0;
 
Stdout (ba).newline;
 
return 0;
}
 

Output:

[RD:0, RI:1, DSR:1, SG:1, DTR:1, TC:1, TD:1, CD:1, SQD:1, +:1, -:1, SRD:1, RTS:1, SRS:1, STD:1, PG:1, SCD:1, CTS:0, DRS:1, SCS:1, XTC:1, RC:1 ]

[edit] Forth

Low level hardware control is a typical use of Forth. None of this is standard, however, since hardware I/O mechanisms differ on different systems. Forth does not have a structure mechanism, much less bitfields. These would be represented instead via bitmask constants if doing real serial port control.

: masks ( n -- ) 0 do 1 i lshift constant loop ;

9 masks DCD RxD TxD DTR SG DSR RTS CTS RI

Example usage, assuming I/O primitives in and out:

hex
3fd constant com1-ctrl
decimal

: wait-ready
  begin
    com1-ctrl in
    CTS and
  until ;
: wait-rx
  begin
    com1-ctrl in
    CTS and 0=
  until ;

: send-byte ( b -- )   \ send assuming N81 (no parity, 8 bits data, 1 bit frame)
  255 and
  9 0 do
    RTS com1-ctrl out
    wait-ready
    dup 1 and if TxD else 0 then com1-ctrl out
    wait-rx
    2/
  loop drop ;
  

Of course, this is a very simplified view of the full RS-232 protocol. Also, although this represents the order of the pins in a D-9 connector, this would not necessarily be the same as the order of the bits in a control register.

[edit] J

J does not support "structures", nor "fields in a structure". Instead, J supports arrays. And, of course, J could have labels corresponding to the elements of an array representing the state (voltage, current, logical bit value, whatever) of each pin of a 9-pin RS-232 plug:

labels=: <;._2]0 :0
CD Carrier detect
RD Received data
TD Transmitted data
DTR Data terminal ready
SG Signal ground
DSR Data set ready
RTS Request to send
CTS Clear to send
RI Ring indicator
)

[edit] MATLAB

Defining structs in MATLAB is kind of bulky, making a class definition might be cleaner for this purpose. If you need to enumerate each pin rather than set the state of the pin using the name of the pin, you can use struct2cell() on the rs232 struct, which will return a cell array whose entries are the value of each of the structs fields in the order in which they were defined.

>> rs232 = struct('carrier_detect', logical(1),...
'received_data' , logical(1), ...
'transmitted_data', logical(1),...
'data_terminal_ready', logical(1),...
'signal_ground', logical(1),...
'data_set_ready', logical(1),...
'request_to_send', logical(1),...
'clear_to_send', logical(1),...
'ring_indicator', logical(1))
 
rs232 =
 
carrier_detect: 1
received_data: 1
transmitted_data: 1
data_terminal_ready: 1
signal_ground: 1
data_set_ready: 1
request_to_send: 1
clear_to_send: 1
ring_indicator: 1
 
>> struct2cell(rs232)
 
ans =
 
[1]
[1]
[1]
[1]
[1]
[1]
[1]
[1]
[1]


[edit] OCaml

Library: extlib

 
open ExtLib
class rs232_data = object
val d = BitSet.create 9
 
method carrier_detect = BitSet.is_set d 0
method received_data = BitSet.is_set d 1
method transmitted_data = BitSet.is_set d 2
method data_terminal_ready = BitSet.is_set d 3
method signal_ground = BitSet.is_set d 4
method data_set_ready = BitSet.is_set d 5
method request_to_send = BitSet.is_set d 6
method clear_to_send = BitSet.is_set d 7
method ring_indicator = BitSet.is_set d 8
 
method set_carrier_detect b = (if b then BitSet.set else BitSet.unset) d 0
method set_received_data b = (if b then BitSet.set else BitSet.unset) d 1
method set_transmitted_data b = (if b then BitSet.set else BitSet.unset) d 2
method set_data_terminal_ready b = (if b then BitSet.set else BitSet.unset) d 3
method set_signal_ground b = (if b then BitSet.set else BitSet.unset) d 4
method set_data_set_ready b = (if b then BitSet.set else BitSet.unset) d 5
method set_request_to_send b = (if b then BitSet.set else BitSet.unset) d 6
method set_clear_to_send b = (if b then BitSet.set else BitSet.unset) d 7
method set_ring_indicator b = (if b then BitSet.set else BitSet.unset) d 8
end
;;
 

[edit] Perl

 
use Bit::Vector::Minimal qw();
my $vec = Bit::Vector::Minimal->new(size => 24);
 
my %rs232 = reverse (
1 => 'PG Protective ground',
2 => 'TD Transmitted data',
3 => 'RD Received data',
4 => 'RTS Request to send',
5 => 'CTS Clear to send',
6 => 'DSR Data set ready',
7 => 'SG Signal ground',
8 => 'CD Carrier detect',
9 => '+ voltage (testing)',
10 => '- voltage (testing)',
12 => 'SCD Secondary CD',
13 => 'SCS Secondary CTS',
14 => 'STD Secondary TD',
15 => 'TC Transmit clock',
16 => 'SRD Secondary RD',
17 => 'RC Receiver clock',
19 => 'SRS Secondary RTS',
20 => 'DTR Data terminal ready',
21 => 'SQD Signal quality detector',
22 => 'RI Ring indicator',
23 => 'DRS Data rate select',
24 => 'XTC External clock',
);
 
$vec->set($rs232{'RD Received data'}, 1);
$vec->get($rs232{'TC Transmit clock'});
 

[edit] PicoLisp

PicoLisp can handle bit fields or bit structures only as bignums. They can be manipulated with '&', '|' and 'x|', or tested with 'bit?'.

# Define bit constants
(for (N . Mask) '(CD RD TD DTR SG DSR RTS CTS RI)
(def Mask (>> (- 1 N) 1)) )
 
# Test if Clear to send
(when (bit? CTS Data)
... )

[edit] Python

The ctypes module allows for the creation of Structures that can map between the structures of C and python datatypes. Within Structures, bit fields can be created.

 
from ctypes import Structure, c_int
 
rs232_9pin = "_0 CD RD TD DTR SG DSR RTS CTS RI".split()
rs232_25pin = ( "_0 PG TD RD RTS CTS DSR SG CD pos neg"
"_11 SCD SCS STD TC SRD RC"
"_18 SRS DTR SQD RI DRS XTC" ).split()
 
class RS232_9pin(Structure):
_fields_ = [(__, c_int, 1) for __ in rs232_9pin]
 
 
class RS232_25pin(Structure):
_fields_ = [(__, c_int, 1) for __ in rs232_25pin]
 
 

[edit] Ruby

Uses the BitStruct module, which is handy but awkward to instantiate objects.

require 'bit-struct'
 
class RS232_9 < BitStruct
unsigned :cd, 1, "Carrier detect" #1
unsigned :rd, 1, "Received data" #2
unsigned :td, 1, "Transmitted data" #3
unsigned :dtr, 1, "Data terminal ready" #4
unsigned :sg, 1, "Signal ground" #5
unsigned :dsr, 1, "Data set ready" #6
unsigned :rts, 1, "Request to send" #7
unsigned :cts, 1, "Clear to send" #8
unsigned :ri, 1, "Ring indicator" #9
 
def self.new_with_int(value)
data = {}
fields.each_with_index {|f, i| data[f.name] = value[i]}
new(data)
end
end
 
num = rand(2**9 - 1)
puts "num = #{num}"
 
sample1 = RS232_9.new([("%09d" % num.to_s(2)).reverse].pack("B*"))
puts sample1.inspect_detailed
 
sample2 = RS232_9.new_with_int(num)
puts sample2.inspect_detailed
 
puts "CD is #{sample2.cd == 1 ? 'on' : 'off'}"
num = 37
RS232_9:
                Carrier detect = 1
                 Received data = 0
              Transmitted data = 1
           Data terminal ready = 0
                 Signal ground = 0
                Data set ready = 1
               Request to send = 0
                 Clear to send = 0
                Ring indicator = 0
RS232_9:
                Carrier detect = 1
                 Received data = 0
              Transmitted data = 1
           Data terminal ready = 0
                 Signal ground = 0
                Data set ready = 1
               Request to send = 0
                 Clear to send = 0
                Ring indicator = 0
CD is on

[edit] Tcl

This Tcl implementation represents the fields as bits in an integer. It provides two functions to get from symbolic pin names to the integer, and vice versa.

 
set rs232_bits {CD RD TD DTR SG DSR RTS CTS RI}
 
proc rs232_encode args {
set res 0
foreach arg $args {
set pos [lsearch $::rs232_bits $arg]
if {$pos >=0} {set res [expr {$res | 1<<$pos}]}
}
return $res
}
proc rs232_decode int {
set res {}
set i -1
foreach bit $::rs232_bits {
incr i
if {$int & 1<<$i} {lappend res $bit}
}
return $res
}
#------------------------------ Test suite
foreach {test => expected} {
{rs232_encode CD} -> 1
{rs232_decode 1} -> CD
{rs232_encode CD RD TD} -> 7
{rs232_decode 7} -> {CD RD TD}
} {
catch $test res
if {$res ne $expected} {puts "$test -> $res, expected $expected"}
}
 
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