It appears that the sparc64 compiler reverses the packing order of
bitfields. So if you are relying on C bitfield ordering to map onto
hardware bits (or anything else), stop it or you'll go blind.
Also, is there a repository of bit-stuffing macros anywhere in the
kernel tree? Things like:
#define BFEXT(value, offset, bitcount) \
((((unsigned long)(value)) >> (offset)) & ((1 << (bitcount)) - 1))
#define BFINS(lhs, rhs, offset, bitcount) \
(((lhs) & ~(((1 << (bitcount)) - 1)) << (offset)) | \
(((rhs) & ((1 << (bitcount)) - 1)) << (offset)))
They were fun to write, but surely this wheel has been invented?
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