On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Price Hall wrote:
>> Bitfields!
>> I haven't been able to work on a bitfields patch as my computer
>> has been in the shop the past couple of days :(
>
>What ARE bitfields? I proudly proclaim my ignorance! I assume its, uh, a
>field...of bits...but then...isn't everything? heheh
I would like bitfields much more if you could do:
unsigned bits[1024] : 1;
Rather than:
unsigned bit1 : 1;
unsigned bit2 : 1;
unsigned bit3 : 1;
unsigned bit4 : 1;
unsigned bit5 : 1;
GCC complains on that first one.
unsigned bits : 1024;
And GCC complains the width is larger than the specified type there.
Ah well.
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http://www.van.ml.org/~greerga | is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard
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