On Mar 8,  8:45am, thorpej@shagadelic.org (Jason Thorpe) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys

| 
| On Mar 7, 2006, at 9:26 PM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| 
| > And they are already causing conflicts [BITS is defined in zlib].
| > Maybe prefix all the generic names with BIT_?
| > BIT -> BIT_GET_MASK
| > BITS -> BIT_GET_MASK_BETWEEN
| 
| 
| > ISSET -> BIT_ISSET
| > CLR -> BIT_CLEAR
| > SET -> BIT_SET
| 
| These three are unlike the others... ISSET(), CLR(), and SET()  
| operate on masks, whereas the other ones operate on bit positions.   
| So, you would either have to change the usage of these three macros  
| to match the bit position semantics (otherwise confusion would  
| flourish), or these should be called BITMASK_ISSET(), BITMASK_CLR(),  
| BITMASK_SET() (so much for saving the extra typing!).

Yes, but the names are nice. I like BITMASK instead of BIT.

christos