On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 08:54:47AM -0700, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 04:04:09PM -0700, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:
> >>
> >> On Aug 26, 2014, at 3:53 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 03:42:33PM -0700, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:
> >> >> Finally, use change the storage type of 'values_inline' to uint8_t, as
> >> >> uint64_t looks kind of wide for a boolean, even though we intend the
> >> >> bit be carved out from the uint64_t where 'map' resides.
> >> >
> >> > It can't be type "bool"?
> >>
> >> From CodingStyle:
> >>
> >>   Declare bit-fields to be type "unsigned int" or "signed int".  Do
> >> *not* declare bit-fields of type "int": C89 allows these to be either
> >> signed or unsigned according to the compiler's whim.  (A 1-bit
> >> bit-field of type "int" may have a range of -1...0!)  Do not declare
> >> bit-fields of type _Bool or enum or any other type, because these are
> >> not portable.
> >>
> >> :-)
> >
> > This was important when we supported C89 compilers that did not have
> > native _Bool (bool), but I think that it is obsolete now, because all
> > of the compilers we support have C99 implementations good enough to
> > have native _Bool.
> >
> > Let's find out and update CodingStyle if so.
> >
> > Guru: does MSVC allow "bool" bit-fields?  I assume so but it's worth a
> > test.
> 
> You mean something like this, right?  If so, it does work.

Thanks.
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