Re: [PATCH] max3100 driver

chri
2008-09-20T14:30:43Z

On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> I do have a question though: what does a signed bitfield of 1 mean?
> I mean.. the variables are "int", so signed.... where will the compiler
> store the sign bit???
>
>

In practice they stored just values 0 and 1 well. 2-complement
representation with 1 bit doesn't have much more space (1 == -1). :-)

Anyway after Andrew comment I stopped using them since I'm too scared:
I'm not sure that it's safe without locking the entire struct.

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