Re: [PATCH -ac] Panicking in morse code

From: Andrew Rodland (arodland@noln.com)
Date: Fri Jul 19 2002 - 19:39:42 EST


On Fri, 19 Jul 2002 20:35:15 -0400 (EDT)
Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> wrote:

> > +static const char * morse[] = {
> > + ".-", "-...", "-.-.", "-..", ".", "..-.", "--.", "....", /* A-H
> > */+ "..", ".---.", "-.-", ".-..", "--", "-.", "---", ".--.", /* I-P
> > */+ "--.-", ".-.", "...", "-", "..-", "...-", ".--", "-..-", /* Q-X
> > */+ "-.--", "--..", /* Y-Z
> > */+ "-----", ".----", "..---", "...--", "....-", /* 0-4 */
> > + ".....", "-....", "--...", "---..", "----." /* 5-9 */
>
> How about using bitmasks here. Say top five bits being the length,
> lower 5 bits being 1 for dash 0 for dit ?
>
v2 uses an algorithm suggested to me in private that allows you to fit
7 bits of morse into 8 bits. Very clever method.

>
> But very nice
>

Thanks. :)
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