On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Sven Panne <[email protected]> wrote: > I've seen BitField, but this is for a slightly different purpose, namely a > replacement for C's bit fields. I don't even know why we need BitField, > because it's in the language itself, perhaps some strange compiler doesn't > handle it?
Custom bit fields make it possible to know the exact layout details when we deal with them in generated code. Another useful thing is runtime checks. -- Vitaly -- v8-dev mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev
