Re: GSoC-2011: Implement Missing Mesh Functions in Wine’s D3DX9

[Henri Verbeet]

On 1 August 2011 14:08, Michael Mc Donnell <michael(a)mcdonnell.dk> wrote:
> > With the bitfields I'm not sure about stuff like endianess. My gut feeling
> > would be to use bitmasks and shifts to separate a DWORD instead, but bitfields
> > certainly look nicer. Beyond that endianess is a somewhat academic
> > consideration with an API that's available on x86 only. So I'd say keep the
> > bitfields.
>
> Ok good. That'll keep me from the pain of doing bit twiddling on a
> little endian machine :-)

You can't do that, even on x86. Bitfield memory layout is undefined.