I just spent a couple of days separating out bitfields in my programs, and writing a translator to pack them correctly.

Then I realized that doing so makes it harder to count bytes when computing jump targets.

Luckily there's just two such bytes in the 32-bit x86 encoding, and most of the time the rule becomes, "add 1 byte if these three columns contain anything".

https://github.com/akkartik/mu/tree/6e51c60c699/subx/Readme.md

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