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Re: Problem with include/bitstring.h



On 07.08.2018 00:30, Paul Goyette wrote:
> While looking at some other stuff, I noticed that the operations
> described in bitstring(3) and implement as macros in include/bitstring.h
> can have a multiple-evaluation problem if the macro arguments have side
> effects (such as a ++ on the bit-number).
> 
> Shouldn't we include a warning about this, both in the man page and in
> the code?
> 

It looks like the calls with multiple evaluations could be changed into
static inline functions wrapped with a macro, analogously to EV_SET from
<sys/event.h>.

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