Jeff Garzik wrote:
always avoid bitfields. They generate horrible code, and endian
problems abound (though no endian problems are apparent here).
they generate no worse code than open coding the checks for these
feature flags...
That would be the logical assumption, but reality does not bear that
logic out to be true.
I just checked a small example and gcc just generates a testb with an
immediate value, which isn't all that bad code.
Do you remember which gcc you tested with?
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