Re: kern/38956

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%shagadelic.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/38956; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej%shagadelic.org@localhost>
To: Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>
Cc: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>,
 gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost,
 kern-bug-people%NetBSD.org@localhost,
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Subject: Re: kern/38956
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:11:01 -0700

 On Jun 23, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
 
 > I agree. Portable bitfields though, not 'unsigned long int' ones.
 > Also if I have to use BIG and LITTLE endian ifdefs to deal with
 > the order that the bitfields are allocated, I'd rather use macros
 > and masks.  The code is cleaner that way.
 
 Before you go changing it, talk to Matt about why it is that way.
 
 >
 >
 > christos
 
 -- thorpej