Re: [Evolution-hackers] Why a bitfield in CamelOfflineFolder?

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

the idea is that we only need 1 bit as a boolean... if we declare it as
a boolean now, then later if we discover we need more state, then we
have to add a whole new boolean to avoid breaking ABI.

In this fashion, we have 31 more bits available to us :)

Jeff

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 09:43 +0100, Jules Colding wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is this really necessary?  
> 
> struct _CamelOfflineFolder {
>         CamelFolder parent_object;
> 
>         unsigned int sync_offline:1;
> };
> 
> Wouldn't it be much better/simpler/cleaner simply to do:
> 
> struct _CamelOfflineFolder {
>         CamelFolder parent_object;
> 
>         gboolean sync_offline;
> };
> 
> ??
> 
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Jeffrey Stedfast
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