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Subject: Re: [9fans] struct problems
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Date: Thu,  8 May 2003 09:30:01 +0200
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Christopher Nielsen" <cnielsen@pobox.com>
> Doh! I should know that bit fields aren't portable.

it's worse than that, a 32 bit int access on a 16 bit device register _may_
get 'optimised' into an 'extract field' instruction which then causes a kernel
mode fault.  iirc the 8th Ed TU16 driver ... 750/780 porting issue.
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