On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 04:25 -0800, Roland Scheidegger wrote:
> On 07.03.2010 01:21, José Fonseca wrote:
> > 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..
> 
> Hmm, might be because the bitfields are of type unsigned, not uint16_t?

It might. But typed bitfields (ie. anything other than 'int' or
'unsigned int') are not standard C. gcc -pedantic will complaint IIRC.

> I've no idea though neither why it would return 01 and not ff.

Jose


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