Re: Memory corruption due to word sharing

[Jeff Garzik]

On 02/01/2012 02:09 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> We have a lot of code, there's still a lot of situations left where
> bitfields are just really convenient.

Or even just s/convenient/ingrained habit/   As much as I try to avoid 
bitfields, engineers writing vendor drivers love to lay out their 
hardware structures using bitfields, leading to such crapola as

	#ifdef little endian
		a bunch of bitfields, LE arrangement
	#else
		bitfields, now in BE arrangement
	#endif

This crops up again and again in drivers :/

	Jeff


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