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Date: Tue,  5 Jun 2007 18:16:00 -0700
From: Roman Shaposhnick <rvs@sun.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] quiz
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On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 18:07 -0700, Paul Lalonde wrote:
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> Signed bit field overflow.
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> You (don't) want "unsigned int botch:1;"
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> Yuck.

  This bit of C is even more obscure. Consider this:

  struct {
    enum {A=-1} x:1;
  } s = {A};

  In this particular case you're at a total mercy of
  the compiler 'cause you can't really write '[un]signed enum'

Thanks,
Roman.