On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. -- Christian Pellegrin, see http://www.evolware.org/chri/ "Real Programmers don't play tennis, or any other sport which requires you to change clothes. Mountain climbing is OK, and Real Programmers wear their climbing boots to work in case a mountain should suddenly spring up in the middle of the computer room." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
