Re: [TCLCORE] tcl performance regressions in 8.6

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> Be careful with bitfields, in ANSI C you have to specify signed or unsigned 
> explicitly, else the sign is undefined and you may get unexpected results 
> (e.g overflows when a refcount drops below zero).
> 
> So you want:
> 
> +    signed int refCount:31;           /* When 0 the object will be freed. 
> */

So that one I can agree with, thanks.

> +    signed int undef:1;               /* Used by L to mark an object as 

but a one bit thing that is signed seems strange :)

But point taken, I'll tweak our source base.  Thanks for the feedback.
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