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Hi,

> Roman> If that flag ends up in a structure, it's a bug.
>
> Why? Most of the time you keep it locally, but still.

You have to keep locally all the time, putting it into a structure riscs
that the flags are "saved" for too long, see also the sparc restrictions
on that.

> No it ruins readability since you suddenly can no longer see what type
> of object you are actually dealing with.

So what? In this case it's absolutely unnecessary to know the type, only
save_flags/restore_flags have any business with it. It could also be
structure to possibly store some more information and the user shouldn't
care at all.

bye, Roman

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