since cpu sets can be dynamically allocated and have variable size,
accessing their contents via ->__bits is not valid; performing pointer
arithmetic outside the range of the size of the declared __bits array
results in undefined beahavior. instead, only use cpu_set_t for
fixed-size cpu set objects (instantiated by the caller) and as an
abstract pointer type for dynamically allocated ones. perform all
accesses simply by casting the abstract pointer type cpuset_t * back
to unsigned long *.