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Re: Out of bits in flagwords, what's the preferred way of extending it?
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
- To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 08:26:22 +1030
- Subject: Re: Out of bits in flagwords, what's the preferred way of extending it?
- References: <20020107183748.M531@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 06:37:48PM +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>
> I'd like to use a new bit in sec->flags, unfortunately there are none left
> (well, 2 are apparently COFF only, but is there some way how to figure out
> section creator type)?
owner->xvec
> Should flagword simply be extended to 64 bits, or use 2 flags bitfields, or
> something else?
Since there are already a number of bitfields, I'd be inclined to use
bitfields.
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Alan Modra
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