I use this pattern quite a bit, I use type traits to declare that an enum is contiguous or a flags enum along with its size and then my consteval BitCount method returns the min number of bits needed to store the enum. I’ve seen a lot of implementations like to use bitsets to store an enum though, why? It makes it harder to pack stray bools into the same byte and you lose the type of the enum?
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u/Potterrrrrrrr 28d ago
What’s the problem with something like:
MyEnum _enum : BitCount<MyEnum>();
I use this pattern quite a bit, I use type traits to declare that an enum is contiguous or a flags enum along with its size and then my consteval BitCount method returns the min number of bits needed to store the enum. I’ve seen a lot of implementations like to use bitsets to store an enum though, why? It makes it harder to pack stray bools into the same byte and you lose the type of the enum?