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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] bitfields API
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:07:40 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48B6F77C.70702@cs.helsinki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080828190533.GA22416@x200.localdomain>

Hi Alexey,

Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>> Would it help (to make this less
>> horrible) to omit the type declaration and have just the bitfield
>> members as arguments to the macro?
> 
> Or you can parse instruction stream a bit more.

Uhm, I'm not sure how that would work out. I mean, we'd need to see if 
parts of the loaded byte are used or not... Doesn't sound practical or 
too pretty.

		Pekka

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-28 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-28 18:32 [RFC][PATCH] bitfields API Vegard Nossum
2008-08-28 18:40 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-08-28 18:40   ` Pekka Enberg
2008-08-28 20:27     ` Adrian Bunk
2008-08-28 20:54       ` Pekka Enberg
2008-08-28 20:59       ` Vegard Nossum
2008-08-28 18:46   ` Vegard Nossum
2008-08-28 19:02     ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-08-28 19:38       ` Vegard Nossum
2008-08-30  8:28         ` Vegard Nossum
2008-08-28 19:05     ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-08-28 19:07       ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2008-08-28 19:18       ` Vegard Nossum

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