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by Aaron P.
Write a class that can represent a signed or unsigned number with an
arbitrary
number of bits. This class should support all bitwise operations ( & ^
~ | ),
basic math operations ( + - / * ), and comparison operators. It would
behave
like an integer in C (except with arbitrary length!), so an unsigned int
0xFFFFFFFF + 1 would equal 0x00000000.
One edge case is what to do in an overflow case ( see the first irb
session
number 2 ). Another is how to handle numbers that are wider than the
specified
number of bits. I’m not really sure how to handle that part, but what I
do is
just take the last N number of bits. So if 0xFFEE was passed in to my 8
bit
vector, I would just take 0xEE.
Example irb sessions
Here is an example of using an 8 bit unsigned int with an initial value
of 0xFF:
irb(main):001:0> n = UnsignedFixedWidthInt.new(0xFF, 8)
=> 255
irb(main):002:0> n += 2
=> 1
irb(main):003:0> n = n << 1
=> 2
irb(main):004:0> n = n >> 1
=> 1
irb(main):005:0> ~n
=> 254
irb(main):006:0> n += 12
=> 13
irb(main):007:0> n = n & 0x0E
=> 12
irb(main):008:0>
Now an example of an 8 bit signed int with an initial value of 0x01:
irb(main):001:0> n = SignedFixedWidthInt.new(0x01, 8)
=> 1
irb(main):002:0> n = n << 7
=> -128
irb(main):003:0> n -= 1
=> 127
irb(main):004:0> n = n >> 6
=> 1
irb(main):005:0> n -= 2
=> -1
irb(main):006:0> n = n ^ 0xF3
=> 12
irb(main):007:0> n = n | 0x01
=> 13
irb(main):008:0>
Here is an example of handling numbers that are too wide:
irb(main):001:0> n = UnsignedFixedWidthInt.new(0x0, 8)
=> 0
irb(main):002:0> n += 0xFFEE
=> 238
irb(main):003:0>
=~ s} unless