PATCH[BIB}: Removing the arg_index field from cpp_hashnode

Zack Weinberg zack@codesourcery.com
Fri Dec 6 15:17:00 GMT 2002


On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 03:05:27PM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 12:25:23PM -0800, Per Bothner wrote:
> > The hashtable.h check was Zacks's suggesting, allowing better packing
> > in 64-bit systems.
> 
> Actually, it doesn't.  The structure is still size 16.  We
> cannot reuse tail padding in C.

Bother.  Suggestions?  This whole exercise is pointless if all we do
is turn actively used bytes into padding.

zw



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