union/struct representations for MAS Registers

[Jimi Xenidis]

On Aug 10, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Kumar Gala wrote:

> 
> On Aug 10, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Jimi Xenidis wrote:
> 
>> I have some and use them in some code, they represent ISA 2.06 MAVN=1 (version 2)
>> Can I keep them?
>> if so, should I put them somewhere useful to others?
>> 
>> Examples:
>> union mas1 {
>> 	u32 _val;
>> 	struct {
>> 		u32 v:1;
>> 		u32 iprot:1;
>> 		u32 tid:14;
>> 		u32 _reserved_1:2;
>> 		u32 ind:1;
>> 		u32 ts:1;
>> 		u32 tsize:4;
>> 		u32 _reserved_2:8;
>> 	};
>> };
> 
> Uugh, we really have avoided unions for such things and it would be nice to keep it that way.

I like "nice", I'll convert
-JX


> 
> - k