On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 16:45 +1300, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> On the bit-field problem, I have a similar mind. Even though the wrap is
> extremely ugly the suggested fix makes code almost unreadable.
The fix (pre- and post-processing) is invisible to the programmer. It
would be auto-performed before and after astyle is run.
> If we have to go the way of hacking bitfields around astyle, I would
> suggest going to a macro (yuck). Like so:
>
> #define BITFIELD(name,bits) unsigned int name : bits
>
> struct {
> BITFIELD(name, 1);
> BITFIELD(flag, 1);
> }
That could work indeed, provided astyle does not mangle the above into
some other ugly representation, especially if comments are added after
the declaration.
Thank you,
Alex.
