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
next prev parent 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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