We will have a new year BUG ? in 2032 ??
For Palm and MAC ???
----- Original Message -----
From: "Garth Watkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: sizeof(DateType) == 2 ?
> This is because all the elements in DateType are bitfields of a Word. In C
> you can actually divide one the integral data types into various fields in
a
> structure. So in the DateType you have:
> typedef struct {
> Word year :7; // years since 1904 (MAC format)
> Word month :4;
> Word day :5;
> } DateType;
> The whole struct consists only of one Word, and the year member takes up
> 7bits, month 4 bits and day 5 bits, for a total of 16 bits, hence 2 bytes.
>
> Garth Watkins
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jamie Macleod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum
> To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 4:50 PM
> Subject: sizeof(DateType) == 2 ?
>
>
> > Can someone explain why sizeof(DateType) gives me 2? DateType is a
> > structure declared as 3 UInt16 values, and of course if I do a
> > (sizeof(UInt16) * 3) I get 6. Shouldn't I be getting 6 for DateType?
> >
> > Jamie
> >
> >
> >
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