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Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:

> Indeed, but please call them flags_t and flags64_t.

Fine by me, though I was trying to avoid confusion with the argument to IRQ
munging functions.

> test_bit et all can dispatch with  __builtin_choose_expr or even _Generic.

Or by __atomic_fetch_{and,or,xor}().

David