bitfield structures

[Michel Dänzer]

On 16.10.2014 23:14, Alex Deucher wrote:
> As part of the amdgpu transition, we are moving to using database
> generated register and packet headers.  We have a number of options
> for formatting, some of which involve bitfields (don't worry there
> will also be shift/mask style headers as well which is mainly what we
> use in the code).  I think these formats are cleaner for a number of
> cases, however, as far as I know, C does not define the ordering of
> bits within bitfields.

That's only the tip of the iceberg of issues with bit-fields.

No bit-fields, please.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer            |                  http://www.amd.com
Libre software enthusiast          |                Mesa and X developer