On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 10:31 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > 
> > Is having separate bit numbers and masks useful?  If so, is it worth
> > doing for the others?
> > 
> 
> I presume it's useful, or at least *used* in the current code, since 
> that was there already.  If deemed useful, it's something we could add 
> to the other bitmasks.

I don't think it needs to be done now, as long as it follows a clear
convention.  I'd prefer eg. X86_EFLAGS_IF_BIT == 9, X86_EFLAGS_IF ==
512, but _X86_EFLAGS_IF seems to be the current practice.

Cheers,
Rusty.


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