Knock me over with a feather

Posted Feb 2, 2012 20:05 UTC (Thu) by dashesy (guest, #74652)
In reply to: Knock me over with a feather by ncm
Parent article: Betrayed by a bitfield

Can someone please explain, what could be the advantage of a "one-bit bitfield" over an integer here?

Posted Feb 2, 2012 20:46 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Maybe they're planning to have several flags in future?

Posted Feb 2, 2012 21:57 UTC (Thu) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (1 responses)

the thing is, this compiler bug would break that too.

Posted Feb 3, 2012 6:50 UTC (Fri) by ncm (guest, #165) [Link]

Yes, the real bug was the 32-bit lock word. The bitfield was just to tempt fate.