thanks to all for the information. i was suprised that the plan9 c compiler supports bit fields.
- erik Charles Forsyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes | | > 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)
