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Re: [RFA] New bitflags type and eflags on i386/x86-64
- From: Michal Ludvig <mludvig at suse dot cz>
- To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- Cc: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at ges dot redhat dot com>,gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 17:08:06 +0200
- Subject: Re: [RFA] New bitflags type and eflags on i386/x86-64
- Organization: SuSE CR
- References: <3CC42DA0.9070906@suse.cz> <3D6BF1D5.70409@ges.redhat.com> <3D6CE138.50801@suse.cz> <20020828144901.GA21703@nevyn.them.org>
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
But Andrew's patch doesn't require a new infrastructure, which is nice.
I stand by all my previous objections to your patch. We have a type
that does this
No, it does something else and perhaps it could be tweaked to do what I
need.
> fix its complex, nested interface, then!
I believe FLAGS would be in use more often then SET. Why to "rape" SET
everytime when I'd need it to behave like FLAGS? It's much clearer to
have FLAGS type for flags puropses.
Michal Ludvig
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