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Bitfields

Posted Jan 17, 2008 14:57 UTC (Thu) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285)
In reply to: Wrong name by guus
Parent article: A kernel security hole

But the kernel doesn't appear to use bitfields much.  I seem to remember that it's something
to do with GCC and miserable performance on non-x86 arch's.


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