From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20198 invoked by alias); 21 Aug 2003 13:48:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 20191 invoked from network); 21 Aug 2003 13:48:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (207.219.125.105) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 Aug 2003 13:48:56 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B48972B7F; Thu, 21 Aug 2003 09:48:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3F44CDC0.4050405@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 13:48:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030820 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [rfa] ENUM BITFIELD, here it comes again References: <200308201649.h7KGnC26008521@duracef.shout.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-08/txt/msg00360.txt.bz2 Michael, one request here. Can you add a commentary to each packed struct that documents exactly what the saving was, and exactly how that saving was computed. Otherwize, the benefits of the change will pass into folk law - instead of treating them as a tradeoff - the packing has a performance const, people will come to believe that they are unconditionally good. Andrew