Hi, On Thu, Oct 06, 2016, Joe Perches wrote: > On Thu, 2016-10-06 at 09:02 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > I believe you are wrong. bit addressability does not matter, cpu can > > definitely get the bit values. > > > > u8 foo:1; > > u8 bar:1; > > u8 baz:1; > > > > should take 1 byte, where > > > > bool foo, bar, baz; > > > > will take more like 3. > > Definitely true. > > There is only one single bitfield foo here though > so what you wrote doesn't apply.
What's in the tree is a left-over from times when there were multiple bit fields in this struct. By the time others were removed and there was only one left no-one has apparently bothered to update it to a bool or single u8. Johan
