[ragel-users] Best practice: using ragel for bit-based state machines on microcontroller?

[Adrian Thurston]

I wish I had some tips for you. I have no experience using Ragel for 
bit-based parsers. I know it's pretty easy to mask out high bits using 
ranges

alphtype unsigned char;
foo = 0xfc .. 0xff;

But masking out low bit patterns is not pleasant because the values are 
not contiguous.

Also, once you mask out some bits, you just move over the others in the 
byte. I suppose you could use fhold strategically. Seems painful to me 
though.

-Adrian

Jan Sporbeck wrote:
> Hello there!
> 
> I'd like to use ragel to design the state machine for a microcontroller
> project (avr atmega8535) written in C.
> 
> I think I understand how to use it for streams of char, int, etc. But
> what's the best practice to use for bit based decisions?
> 
> I could use union..struct to pack all bits in one datatype and process
> that. But I doubt that'll yield a performant implementation.
> 
> I read messages on this list that ragel is used for uC projects, but no
> details how.
> 
> So any hints or example code to get me started is appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> /Jan.
> 
> 
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