Re: [dev] dwm bit fields conversion

From: Jacob Todd <jaketodd422_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 11:07:58 -0400

this will be useful for running dwm on my pdp-11.

On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 10:49 AM, koneu <koneu93_AT_googlemail.com> wrote:
> In Xdefs.h, Bool is typedef'd as int (= at least 2 bytes, sometimes more, depending on the implementation), of which we set the last bit to 1 or 0.
> In the Monitor and Client structures dwm uses, we can instead use char bit fields, storing up to 8 Bool values in 1 byte.
>
> diff --git a/dwm.c b/dwm.c
> index 314adf4..83af1f6 100644
> --- a/dwm.c
> +++ b/dwm.c
> _AT_@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ struct Client {
> int basew, baseh, incw, inch, maxw, maxh, minw, minh;
> int bw, oldbw;
> unsigned int tags;
> - Bool isfixed, isfloating, isurgent, neverfocus, oldstate, isfullscreen;
> + unsigned char isfixed :1, isfloating :1, isurgent :1, neverfocus :1, oldstate :1, isfullscreen :1, :2;
> Client *next;
> Client *snext;
> Monitor *mon;
> _AT_@ -121,8 +121,7 @@ struct Monitor {
> unsigned int seltags;
> unsigned int sellt;
> unsigned int tagset[2];
> - Bool showbar;
> - Bool topbar;
> + unsigned char showbar :1, topbar :1, :6;
> Client *clients;
> Client *sel;
> Client *stack;
>
>
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