On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 05:44 -0800, Brian Paul wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 5:44 AM, José Fonseca <jfons...@vmware.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 09:03 -0800, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 08:47 -0800, Jose Fonseca wrote:
> >> > Module: Mesa
> >> > Branch: master
> >> > Commit: 9beb302212a2afac408016cbd7b93c8b859e4910
> >> > URL:    
> >> > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=9beb302212a2afac408016cbd7b93c8b859e4910
> >> >
> >> > Author: José Fonseca <jfons...@vmware.com>
> >> > Date:   Fri Feb 26 16:45:22 2010 +0000
> >> >
> >> > util: Code generate functions to pack and unpack a single pixel.
> >> >
> >> > Should work correctly for all pixel formats except SRGB formats.
> >> >
> >> > Generated code made much simpler by defining the pixel format as
> >> > a C structure. For example this is the generated structure for
> >> > PIPE_FORMAT_B6UG5SR5S_NORM:
> >> >
> >> > union util_format_b6ug5sr5s_norm {
> >> >    uint16_t value;
> >> >    struct {
> >> >       int r:5;
> >> >       int g:5;
> >> >       unsigned b:6;
> >> >    } chan;
> >> > };
> >>
> >> José, are you aware that the memory layout of bitfields is mostly
> >> implementation dependent? IME this makes them mostly unusable for
> >> modelling hardware in a portable manner.
> >
> > It's not only implementation dependent and slow -- it is also buggy!
> >
> > gcc-4.4.3 is doing something very fishy to single bit fields.
> >
> > See the attached code. ff ff ff ff is expected, but ff ff ff 01 is
> > printed with gcc-4.4.3. Even without any optimization. gcc-4.3.4 works
> > fine.
> >
> > Am I missing something or is this effectively a bug?
> 
> Same result with gcc 4.4.1.
> 
> If pixel.chan.a is put into a temporary int var followed by the
> scaling arithmetic it comes out as expected.  Looks like a bug to me.

Thanks. I'll submit a bug report then.

> BTW, it looks like sizeof(union util_format_b5g5r5a1_unorm) == 4, not 2.

Yet another reason to stay away from bit fields..

Jose


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