Add octet-aligned/unaligned shift functions
The actual code is from OsmoBTS' tch.c by Harald Welte. Add unit tests,
doxygen annotation and extra memory safety check. Those functions are
used in several BTS implementations but seems generic enough to be
generally useful.
Change-Id: I2b1901c4161e8035f059585901dca593b661556d
diff --git a/src/bits.c b/src/bits.c
index 569a10f..0c77b27 100644
--- a/src/bits.c
+++ b/src/bits.c
@@ -61,6 +61,54 @@
return outptr - out;
}
+/*! \brief Shift unaligned input to octet-aligned output
+ * \param[out] out output buffer, unaligned
+ * \param[in] in input buffer, octet-aligned
+ * \param[in] num_nibbles number of nibbles
+ */
+void osmo_nibble_shift_right(uint8_t *out, const uint8_t *in,
+ unsigned int num_nibbles)
+{
+ unsigned int i, num_whole_bytes = num_nibbles / 2;
+ if (!num_whole_bytes)
+ return;
+
+ /* first byte: upper nibble empty, lower nibble from src */
+ out[0] = (in[0] >> 4);
+
+ /* bytes 1.. */
+ for (i = 1; i < num_whole_bytes; i++)
+ out[i] = ((in[i - 1] & 0xF) << 4) | (in[i] >> 4);
+
+ /* shift the last nibble, in case there's an odd count */
+ i = num_whole_bytes;
+ if (num_nibbles & 1)
+ out[i] = ((in[i - 1] & 0xF) << 4) | (in[i] >> 4);
+ else
+ out[i] = (in[i - 1] & 0xF) << 4;
+}
+
+/*! \brief Shift unaligned input to octet-aligned output
+ * \param[out] out output buffer, octet-aligned
+ * \param[in] in input buffer, unaligned
+ * \param[in] num_nibbles number of nibbles
+ */
+void osmo_nibble_shift_left_unal(uint8_t *out, const uint8_t *in,
+ unsigned int num_nibbles)
+{
+ unsigned int i, num_whole_bytes = num_nibbles / 2;
+ if (!num_whole_bytes)
+ return;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < num_whole_bytes; i++)
+ out[i] = ((in[i] & 0xF) << 4) | (in[i + 1] >> 4);
+
+ /* shift the last nibble, in case there's an odd count */
+ i = num_whole_bytes;
+ if (num_nibbles & 1)
+ out[i] = (in[i] & 0xF) << 4;
+}
+
/*! \brief convert unpacked bits to soft bits
* \param[out] out output buffer of soft bits
* \param[in] in input buffer of unpacked bits