On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:16:42AM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> 
> > you cannot take the address of a bit portably in C, so you can't let
> > parseopt set/clear bits through bitfields (as in unsigned field : 1 in a
> > struct in C I mean).
> > 
> > So to use parseopt OPTION_BIT feature, you have to convert them to C
> > flags as in "unsigned flags" and explicit masks defines/enums.
> > 
> > IOW:
> > 
> >     struct foo {
> >        unsigned bar : 1,
> > 		...
> > 		  baz : 1;
> >     };
> > 
> > Must be converted into:
> > 
> >     struct foo {
> >     #define FOO_FLAG_BAR (1U <<  1)
> >     ...
> >     #define FOO_FLAG_BAZ (1U << 18)
> >       unsigned flags;
> >     }
> > 
> > so that you can use parseopt.  that's what I meant.
> > 
> > 
> > This was done for the rev-list parsing stuff e.g.
> 
> e.g. what?

err no, not rev-list, diff options: struct diff_options::flags and the
DIFF_OPT_* defines

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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
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