[fpc-devel] BitHelpers

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 8 Jul 2021, Zeljko Avramovic via fpc-devel wrote:

> BitHelpers are quite mature now and I would like to see them as part of FreePascal. If devs agree to that, then I would like to discuss what is the best way to include them. As mentioned at https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,41672.msg409880.html#msg409880, Thaddy would like to see them available out of the box (added to syshelp*.inc), but I would prefer to see them as a separate package.
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> What do you think would be the best way? I can do whatever is better, but I would like to hear your thoutghs first.
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> BitHelpers info can be found at the beginning of that forum thread, at repo https://bitbucket.org/avra/bithelpers, and in the wiki https://wiki.freepascal.org/BitHelpers.

There are already bithelpers in the sysutils unit. If you want to extend
them, that's fine. Just post a patch in the bugtracker...

Michael.