@ Corey <clinge...@gmail.com> wrote (2011-06-01 04:39+0200): > I mean, come on -- storing data in "unused" bits in a pointer? Even > I know that's a bad idea.
But really, there are user-space memory pools which align on 8 or 16 byte boundaries, so here you have at least three perfectly fine bits. That's at least sometimes much much better than growing a structure by that very size for one bit or two. Super object. Washing machine. (Ooh - upper bounds are beyond my scope.) -- Ciao, Steffen sdaoden(*)(gmail.com) () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
