EOFError when reading unaligned little endian bit integers about bindata HOT 5 CLOSED

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I was hoping that since a record defines its fields from least to most significant bytes, and that you can mix the endianness between different byte fields, that I would be able to do the same within a bitfield. In the example above I would expect that :tag would use the 2 most significant bits of the byte, and :a would use the 6 least significant bits.

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The docs kind of imply this is possible: https://github.com/dmendel/bindata/wiki/Records#specifying-default-endian. Perhaps a note could be added there (or in the section about bitfields) that you can't mix endian-ness?

Should the endian directive apply for records containing bitfields?

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Yes, that would be the expected output regardless of the endianness of the bitfield, right?

These two classes give the same result

class Test1 < BinData::Record
  bit2 :tag 
  bit6 :a
end

class Test2 < BinData::Record
  bit6le :a 
  bit2le :tag 
end

Test1.read("\xa4") == Test2.read("\xa4")

For the same sequence of bits bitN(bits) == bitNle(bits). If I'm understanding things correctly, the difference is if the bits are consumed starting from the beginning or end of the byte(s)?

In any case, I don't want to belabour the point. Thank you for explaining things!

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