On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Leonardo Francalanci <m_lists@yahoo.it> wrote:
>> I don't think making xinfo shorter will save anything, because
>> whatever follows it is going to be a 4-byte quantity and therefore
>> 4-byte aligned.
>
>
> ups, didn't notice it.
>
> I'll split xinfo into:
>
> uint16 xinfo;
> uint16 presentFlags;
>
>
> I guess it helps with the reading? I mean, instead
> of having a single uint32?
My feeling would be just keep it as uint32. Breaking it up into
chunks doesn't seem useful to me.
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