On Mon, 14 May 2012 20:30:15 +0200
Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]> wrote:

> However, by replacing short integers with a character we already cut the
> size of the structure in half (2 vs 1 bytes) and it is a good enough
> optimization. I tend to avoid using bitfields as it fits data into words
> and this is bad when dealing with endianness. There's really no gain
> here anyway, so I'd just label it as a char.

Hi

Why should we care about endianness here, when the struct is never written to 
disk nor sent anywhere?

A bitfield would cause trouble were the struct concurrently accessed, but as 
it's only handled from one thread, I see no downside to using bits there.

- Lauri
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