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How many page flags do we really have?

How many page flags do we really have?

Posted Jul 10, 2009 17:45 UTC (Fri) by sethml (subscriber, #8471)
In reply to: How many page flags do we really have? by giraffedata
Parent article: How many page flags do we really have?

Yeah, I was left wondering why the page flags are an unsigned long rather than a uint32_t?
Surely in such a space constrained data structure it's best to use only as many bits as
necessary?


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