On 02/12/2013 09:32 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:14 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:No, I think what he is talking about it this bit:Ok, I agree that the bitfield code actually looks cleaner. That said, maybe gcc has an easier time using a few odd builtins and magic typeof's. But at least the bitfield trick looks half-way portable..
On the other hand, it still uses two gcc extensions: long long bitfields and typeof.
I'll see what kind of code we get with the macro. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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