On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 10:31 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> >
> > Is having separate bit numbers and masks useful? If so, is it worth
> > doing for the others?
> >
>
> I presume it's useful, or at least *used* in the current code, since
> that was there already. If deemed useful, it's something we could add
> to the other bitmasks.
I don't think it needs to be done now, as long as it follows a clear
convention. I'd prefer eg. X86_EFLAGS_IF_BIT == 9, X86_EFLAGS_IF ==
512, but _X86_EFLAGS_IF seems to be the current practice.
Cheers,
Rusty.
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