On 2/23/07, Richard Knutsson <[email protected]> wrote:
Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On 2/23/07, Richard Knutsson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Milind Choudhary wrote:
>> > On 2/23/07, Richard Knutsson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> > +#define BITWRAP(nr) (1UL << ((nr) % BITS_PER_LONG))
>> >> >
>> >> > & make the whole input subsystem use it
>> >> > The change is huge, more than 125 files using input.h
>> >> > & almost all use the BIT macro.
>> >> It is as a big of change, but have you dismissed the "BIT(nr %
>> >> BITS_PER_LONG)" approach?
>> >
>> > no..
>> > but just looking at the number of places it is being used,
>> > it seems that adding a new macro would be good
>> > which makes it look short n sweet
>> You have a point there but I still don't think it should be in bitops.h.
>> Why should we favor long-wrap before byte-wrap, so what do you think
>> about doing:
>>
>> #define BITWRAP(x) BIT((x) % BITS_PER_LONG)
>>
>> in input.h? Otherwise I think it should be call LBITWRAP (or something)
>> to both show what kind it is and enable us to add others later.
>
> Why would you not want to have what you call bitwrap as a standard
> behavior? Most placed to not use modulus because they know the kind of
> data they are working with but should still be fine if generic
> implementation did that.
>
Both because I find the name not as expressive as simple "BIT(x %
something)",
I was not talking about name (I hate BITWRAP) but behavior.
but mainly since it only enables wrapping of the long-type.
I'd provde BIT and separate LLBIT for ones who really need long long.
People who intereseted in smaller than BITS_PER_LONG bitmaps shoud use
your proposal - BIT(x % DESIRED_WITH) and BIT should do modulo
BITS_PER_LONG internally.
--
Dmitry
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