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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Coding style: bit fields
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 22:04:08 +0100
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To: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>
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At Sat, 19 Feb 2005 18:37:26 +0100,
Giuliano Pochini wrote:
> 
> The echoaudio driver has many flags in chip_t stored as bit fields. It
> doesn't save any space because accessing a bitfield requires more
> instructions than accessing a byte. Eg. ppc needs one instruction to write a
> char and three instructions to write a bitfield (load, modify, store, 12
> bytes...). I'm thinking about replacing all af them with chars. Is it ok ?

Sure, go ahead!


Takashi


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