Besides that, any compiler worth its salt should complain.

On Jun 20, 2014, at 7:50 AM, Jim Jagielski <[email protected]> wrote:

> Who does that w/ bit fields? You either check if it's
> true/false or you use the expected bit operations.
> 
> On Jun 19, 2014, at 9:29 AM, Yann Ylavic <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Jim Jagielski <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Jun 19, 2014, at 8:43 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Author: ylavic
>>>> Date: Thu Jun 19 12:43:05 2014
>>>> New Revision: 1603863
>>>> 
>>>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1603863
>>>> Log:
>>>> Use unsigned bit flags (otherwise the non-zero value to be used is -1).
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I don't understand that at all... A bit is either 1 or 0.
>>> 
>> 
>> Well, it depends on what you are doing with that bit...
>> 
>> #include <stdio.h>
>> int main(int argc, const char *argv[])
>> {
>>   struct {
>>       int s:1;
>>   } bitfield;
>> 
>>   bitfield.s = 1;
>>   if (bitfield.s > 0) {
>>       printf("positive\n");
>>   }
>>   else {
>>       printf("negative or nul\n");
>>   }
>>   if (bitfield.s == 1) {
>>       printf("one\n");
>>   }
>>   else {
>>       printf("not one\n");
>>   }
>> 
>>   return 0;
>> }
>> 
>> $ ./bitfield
>> negative or nul
>> not one
>> 
> 

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