What are the ways to create draw data structures for latex?

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Published on 2011-06-24T07:33:30Z Indexed on 2011/06/24 8:23 UTC
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I tried tikz/pgf a bit but have not had much luck creating a nice diagram to visualize bitfields or byte fields of packed data structures (i.e. in memory). Essentially I want a set of rectangles representing ranges of bits with labels inside, and offsets along the top. There should be multiple rows for each word of the data structure. This is similar to most of the diagrams in most processor manuals labeling opcode encoding etc.

Has anyone else tried to do this using latex or is there a package for this?

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