On 5/27/10 1:28 PM, Robert Spanton wrote: > On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 13:23 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote: >> I have it here but don't feel like digging through it, and it seems >> like it's fresh in your mind so I'll ask...Is there anything in C99 >> that'd allow for packing bools into a byte or word value, a-la >> Pascal's "packed array of boolean"? > > I think that won't give you a performance win on many targets.
Of course not...not everything has (for example) 8051's bit-addressable space. I was just curious. :) > bool > should be the thing that's fastest to access on the given machine, and > accessing single bits will often involve more than one instruction I > think. Absolutely. -Dave -- Dave McGuire Port Charlotte, FL _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user