"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> writes:

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> From: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
>
> I guess these fields were one day 16-bit in the struct but
> nowadays they're just using 8 bits anyway.
>
> This is just a precaution, didn't result any change in my
> case but who knows what all those varying gcc versions &
> options do. I've been told that 16-bit is not so nice with
> some cpus.

Typically when 16bit is not nice, 8bit isn't nice either.
For general flags the most save in terms of uniform performance
is "int"

-Andi

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