Re: [PATCH] bluetooth.h: __ variants of u8 and friends are not neccessary inside kernel
From: Joe Perches
Date: Thu Oct 06 2016 - 03:08:05 EST
On Thu, 2016-10-06 at 09:02 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> I believe you are wrong. bit addressability does not matter, cpu can
> definitely get the bit values.
>
> u8 foo:1;
> u8 bar:1;
> u8 baz:1;
>
> should take 1 byte, where
>
> bool foo, bar, baz;
>
> will take more like 3.
Definitely true.
There is only one single bitfield foo here though
so what you wrote doesn't apply.