Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:11:06 +0200 (MET DST) | From | "Maciej W. Rozycki" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] unexpected IO-APIC update |
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On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> | But the ugliness part I care about, and I wonder if it wouldn't be better > | in this case to just make the register definition a "union", and have > | something like > | > | union reg_03 { > | u32 value; > | struct { > | u32 boot_DT:1, > | reserved:31; > | } bits; > | }; [...] > Sure, I'll do that.
Perhaps using "raw" instead of "value" would be prettier and certainly we would save two characters per reference. ;-) Anyway, it's indeed a good opportunity to do a clean-up while fiddling with these bits.
-- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
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