On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 17:36:39 -0700 Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 5:21 PM, Jonathan Tan <jonathanta...@google.com> > wrote: > > The "used" field in struct object is only used by builtin/fsck. Remove > > that field and modify builtin/fsck to use a flag instead. > > The patch looks good to me (I would even claim this could > go in as an independent cleanup, not tied to the RFCish nature > of the later patches), though I have a question: > How did you select 0x0008 for USED, i.e. does it > collide with other flags (theoretically?), and if so > how do we make sure to avoid the collusion in > the future? Thanks. 0x0008 was the next one in the series (as you can see in the context). As for whether it collides with other flags, that is what the chart in object.h is for (which I have added to in this patch), I presume. As far as I can tell, each component must make sure not to overlap with any other component running concurrently.
