> the trouble is these structures go on forever and have many > bitfields. (in one i count 46 fields, all integers of random width, > randomly intermixed.)
they shouldn't rely on bitfields. in particular, the language does not guarantee which order they are assigned to bits in a larger unit (ie, left to right or right to left). the nice thing is that in the plan 9 environment, you get to fix such mistakes and do much better (although it's always tedious to discover that late in the day)
