Re: [KJ][RFC][PATCH] BIT macro cleanup

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On 2/23/07, Richard Knutsson <[email protected]> wrote:
Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> I was not talking about name (I hate BITWRAP) but behavior.
Oh, my bad :)
>
>> 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.
I agree that _if_ there is a "BITWRAP" then it should be long, but I
don't see the reason for it to be in bitops.h when it is only input.h
that uses it. + I find it different with BIT since it works as well with
'char' as 'long'.
Also, I think it would be best if the name indicated it is a 'long'.

Am a little bit curious why you would like it in bitops.h, but won't
complain if you do (think you have noticed my view of it ;))


Hm, I thought as was clear, but apparently I messed up explaining my position:

1. I don't like BITWRAP name at all and I don't want anything like
that near input code. I think BIT is just fine.

2. I don't want to use BIT(x % BITS_PER_BITLONG) as it will
significantly litter code in the input drivers. You want see whta bits
you are actually setting behind all these "% BITS_PER_BITLONG".

3. I think most of users could use input's implementation of BIT,
possibly using BIT(x % BM_WIDTH) format to further limit width of the
bitmap if needed.

4. LLBIT should be provided to users who really want long long.

--
Dmitry
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