Re: [PATCH 1/19] unify desc_struct

["Glauber de Oliveira Costa" <glommer@gmail.com>]

On Dec 6, 2007 6:54 PM, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
>
> > +/*
> > + * FIXME: Acessing the desc_struct through its fields is more elegant,
> > + * and should be the one valid thing to do. However, a lot of open code
> > + * still touches the a and b acessors, and doing this allow us to do it
> > + * incrementally. We keep the signature as a struct, rather than an union,
> > + * so we can get rid of it transparently in the future -- glommer
> > + */
> > +#define raw_desc_struct struct { unsigned int a, b; }
> > +#define detailed_desc_struct                                   \
> > +  struct {                                                       \
> > +     u16 limit0;                                             \
> > +     u16 base0;                                              \
> > +     unsigned base1 : 8, type : 4, s : 1, dpl : 2, p : 1;    \
> > +     unsigned limit : 4, avl : 1, l : 1, d : 1, g : 1, base2 :8;\
> > +  }
>
> The standard clean way to do this is with a anonymous union.
It is an anonymous union.

However:

* It's an union of structs
* I wished to keep the toplevel type as a struct
The alternative would be to write:

struct desc_struct {
union {
    struct { unsigned int a, b; };
    struct {
               u16 limit0;
               u16 base0;
               unsigned base1 : 8, type : 4, s : 1, dpl : 2, p : 1;
               unsigned limit : 4, avl : 1, l : 1, d : 1, g : 1, base2 :8;
    };
};
};

Which is fine, it's all the same in the end. Just with more shift
rights, and more visual pollution.


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