Hi,

On Mon, 12 May 2014, Richard Sandiford wrote:

> > Also I'm idly wondering if the explicit sizing of 
> > the fields via a bit-field as originally would be better here or just 
> > confusing.  I guess unsigned and enums are 32bit for all hosts we care 
> > about, but if we ever have one where it's larger the rtx will suddenly 
> > contain another hole.
> 
> But that'll happen anyway, which is why I thought having bitfields
> was confusing.  Since this is a union, you'll always get the full
> "unsigned int" regardless of the bitfield size; the bitfield can't
> be packed with anything else.

Hmm, true.  Okay, it'd be premature optimization for hosts which don't 
exist anyway :)


Ciao,
Michael.

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