[fetter-devel] unnamed bit fields

[Kenny Tilton]

Luis Oliveira wrote:

> On 13/set/2005, at 04:03, Rayiner Hashem wrote:
>
>>  The issue about bitfields is a bigger problem. It won't keep the 
>> library from
>>  compiling, but to be able to access the bitfields, I'd have to write 
>> a lowering
>>  pass that would collapse the bitfield members and generate wrapper 
>> functions
>>  for doing the bit-twiddling to access those members. Luis, is 
>> bitfield support in
>>  the cards for C-FFI, or would I be better of writing the lowering pass?
>
>
> Well, yes, CFFI should support bitfields. In my todo list. Is this 
> high-priority?
>
Didn't this start with a problem report from your first customer? Or 
were they just making an observation? If the former, that gives you a 
measure of how serious the problem is -- it came up in normal usage, not 
some arcane stress test. So that makes it higher priority. Also, it is 
one of your first customers, and you only get once chance to make a 
first impression.

My 2c.

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Kenny

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