linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] New firewire stack

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Date:	Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:24:33 -0500
From:	Kristian Høgsberg <krh@...hat.com>
To:	ray-gmail@...rabbit.org
CC:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] New firewire stack

Ray Lee wrote:
> On 12/4/06, Kristian Høgsberg <krh@...hat.com> wrote:
>> Ok... I was planning to make big-endian versions of the structs so 
>> that the
>> endian issue would be solved.  But if the bit layout is not consistent, I
>> guess bitfields are useless for wire formats.  I didn't know that 
>> though, I
>> thought the C standard specified that the compiler should allocate 
>> bits out of
>> a word using the lower bits first.
> 
> The C standard explicitly allows it to be implementation defined.
> Having been bit by this exact problem, I can also recommend never
> using bitfields for anything other than things kept solely in local
> memory.

Yeah, I just read that paragraph in K&R... sigh.  Bitfields make the code so 
readable, though :)  Anyway, I'll rewrite it to use good old shifting and masking.

Kristian


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