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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu, Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] structure allocation.
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Date: Tue,  7 Mar 2006 05:54:47 -0600
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thanks to all for the information.

i was suprised that the plan9 c compiler supports bit fields.

- erik

Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net> 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)