From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6389 invoked by alias); 31 Oct 2004 18:43:30 -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 6370 invoked from network); 31 Oct 2004 18:43:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Cantor.suse.de) (195.135.220.2) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 31 Oct 2004 18:43:28 -0000 Received: from hermes.suse.de (hermes-ext.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA05EEC5B60; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:40:28 +0100 (CET) To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Paul Hilfinger , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] Setting long long bitfields References: <20041031090847.2E303F2985@nile.gnat.com> <41852B2B.6030305@gnu.org> From: Andreas Schwab X-Yow: Hello. Just walk along and try NOT to think about your INTESTINES being almost FORTY YARDS LONG!! Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 18:43:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <41852B2B.6030305@gnu.org> (Andrew Cagney's message of "Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:12:59 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SW-Source: 2004-10/txt/msg00548.txt.bz2 Andrew Cagney writes: > One possible tweak, several of us have an aversion to "?:", it would be > nice if it wasn't there :-) Like this perhaps: + ULONGEST mask = (ULONGEST) -1 >> (8 * sizeof (ULONGEST) - bitsize); Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."