Re: [PATCH 01/19] revision.h: avoid bit fields in struct rev_info

[Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 9:07 PM Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/8/2019 7:12 AM, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:
> > Bitfield addresses cannot be passed around in a pointer. This makes it
> > hard to use parse-options to set/unset them. Turn this struct to
> > normal integers. This of course increases the size of this struct
> > multiple times, but since we only have a handful of rev_info variables
> > around, memory consumption is not at all a concern.
>
> I think you are right that this memory trade-off shouldn't be a problem.
>
> What worries me instead is that we are using an "internal" data structure
> for option parsing. Would it make more sense to create a struct for use
> in the parse_opts method and a method that translates those options into
> the bitfield in struct rev_info?

But we are doing that now (option parsing) using the same data
structure. Why would changing from a custom parser to parse_options()
affect what fields it should or should not touch in rev_info? Genuine
question. Maybe you could elaborate more about "internal". I probably
missed something. Or maybe this is a good opportunity to separate
intermediate option parsing variables from the rest of rev_info?
-- 
Duy